# Mail Fetcher : TCPSocket.open issue

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mail-fetcher-tcpsocket-open-issue/156699>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 1, 2009, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mail-fetcher-tcpsocket-open-issue/156699 "2009-01-01T13:09:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mail-fetcher-tcpsocket-open-issue/156699/1 "2009-01-01T13:09:14Z")

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Hi All,

I want to featch mails from gmail using rails. Am following  
[http://www.iannopollo.com/articles/2008/02/17/mail-fetcher---fetch-email-from-ruby-and-rails/](http://www.iannopollo.com/articles/2008/02/17/mail-fetcher---fetch-email-from-ruby-and-rails/)  
link for that. But am getting an error.

Timeout::Error (execution expired):  
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:54:in  
`open' ./vendor/plugins/mail-fetcher/lib/net/pop.rb:519:in `do\_start’  
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in  
`timeout' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout’  
./vendor/plugins/mail-fetcher/lib/net/pop.rb:522:in `do_start' ./vendor/plugins/mail-fetcher/lib/net/pop.rb:508:in `start’  
./vendor/plugins/mail-fetcher/lib/net/pop.rb:383:in `start' /app/controllers/users_controller.rb:128:in `fetch\_mail’  
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action\_controller/base.rb:1162:in  
`send' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1162:in `perform\_action\_without\_filters’

I have downloaded mail-fetcher plugin and added it in my controller file  
(require ‘vendor/plugins/mail-fetcher/lib/mail\_fetcher.rb’). But its  
getting stuck here.

Net::POP3.start(“[mail.google.com](http://mail.google.com)”, nil, “username”, “password”) do |pop|  
and s = timeout(@open\_timeout) { TCPSocket.open(@address, @port) }  
(pop.rb:519)

When i tried with irb its gave me this error

Apples-iMac-Vipin:~ vipin$ irb

> > require ‘socket’  
> > =\> true  
> > require ‘open-uri’  
> > =\> true  
> > s = TCPSocket.open(“[gmail.com](http://gmail.com)”, 587) ; s.close  
> > Errno::ETIMEDOUT: Operation timed out - connect(2)  
> > from (irb):3:in `initialize' from (irb):3:in `open’  
> > from (irb):3

Any ideas?