From: markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
  To  : <masqmail@marmaro.de>
  Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:34:49 +0100

Re: [masqmail] masqmail hangs when checking for pop3

[2010-12-20 13:28] Melvin King <mkdutchman@gmail.com>
> Hi

Hoi,

welcome to masqmail. :-)


> I'm running ubuntu 10.04 netbook

Then you probably have version 0.2.21 running. Please check with
`/usr/sbin/masqmail -bV'.

> and trying to make masqmail play nice with
> gmail, everything appears to work but when trying to retrieve pop3 mail it
> seems to hang, with no error message. Where do I get started on troubleshooting this?

I have never used masqmail's POP3 feature myself, hence I have few
knowledge on it. I also believe masqmail should not concentrate on
mail retrieval tasks, hence I removed it from newer versions (>
0.3.0).

Currently I am on travel and cannot dig into the problem. I recommend
you to use some dedicated tool to retrieve mail. Fetchmail, getmail,
fdm are examples. Mail retrieval is less dependend on changing and
temporary unavailable connections. Probably only log files might get
filled if the Mail Retrieval Agent (MRA) is run from cron. If you
though need to run different retrievals, dependend on the connections,
you can hook into masqmail's online_pipe script.

Maybe someone else can help you further.

I'm very sorry I cannot spend more time on this. (I'll be back in
April.)


meillo


P.S.
I'd be happe if you could post your route config (with login data
substituted, of course) to the list as an example of how to interface
gmail. I like to include concrete example configs for popular
providers in future releases.