Re: speaking of qpopper...

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <cistron.XFMail.990906224833.pollywog@shadypond.com>,
Pollywog  <pollywog@shadypond.com> wrote:
>I am finding these messages in my logs.  I use Exim with fetchmail and
>qpopper.  Debian Potato.
>
>Sep  6 22:35:19 lilypad in.qpopper[18514]: @localhost: -ERR Too few
>arguments
>for the auth command.

So fetchmail is sending a command to qpopper that it doesn't understand.
Perhaps fetchmail is just probing what it can and cannot do. You can
safely ignore this, it's not an error (despite the misleading -ERR).

You can probably configure fetchmail not to do this.

Mike.
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