Fetchmail error

[Joel Hammer]

I pop my mail off a server with fetchmail. Every now and then there
is a "socket" error while downloading an email. The transfer stops,
and nothing else gets downloaded. I have to log onto the mail server
manually with telnet to DELE the offending email. The really bad part
is that the emails I downloaded don't get erased off the server, since
fetchmail didn't finish fetching, and my mailbox out on the internet
gets filled up (5megs of storage is nothing considering the large bulk
of my email these days consists of security updates from "MS".)

Has anyone seen this problem? Any quick fixes?

Thanks,
Joel