On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:04:01AM +0100 or thereabouts, Peter J Ross wrote: > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:19:23AM -0400, Steve Å wrote: <snip> > > What I've done so far is tell procmail to fetch using SSL. > > You mean fetchmail, not procmail, I assume. Correct. > > When I run fetchmail (standalone as opposed to daemon), I'm told SSL > > is not enabled. > > > > In my research tonight, I downloaded and installed fetchmail-ssl, > > apparently it's a 'virtual' package, and therefore not much use. > > It exists to replace the old (Woody) fetchmail-ssl with the new > (Sarge) fetchmail, which already includes ssl support. OIC. Thanks. > > I do have OpenSSL enabled. <snip> > > Does anyone have any hints ? > > This works for me in .fetchmailrc: > > poll pop.gmail.com > proto POP3 > port 995 > user 'username@gmail.com' > pass 'password' > ssl Yeah that's the syntax I've tried previously. Never-the-less I tried it again, with a fresh set of eyes. No luck ... 8( > Perhaps you may need to specify the port number (and check that your > firewall allows you to connect to it)? Also, your path for sslcertpath > seems impossible. Did you mean ~/certs/.certs? As you can see from my > example, you don't need the certificates, though fetchmail warns if > they're not verifiable. Yeah my Firewall allows such connections. The path I used for the certs was according to an example I had found via Google. I've changed to various other paths with the same result. > That's all I can suggest without seeing the error messages from > fetchmail. Well, the error is quite simply "/home/steve123/.fetchmailrc:12: SSL is not enabled at ssl" when I run fetchmail. -- Steve <http://sweetpig.dyndns.org:1000/> ----------------------------------------------- Sunday Aug 07 2005 10:55:01 AM EDT ----------------------------------------------- "... all the modern inconveniences ..." -- Mark Twain
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