On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:22:33PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I replaced the stock nv driver under Etch with the nVidia proprietary > driver, and logged out and back in. When I did so, fetchmail was no > longer able to get authorization from my mail server. I should note > that it has been months since I've logged out, and the graphics driver > change is probably irrelevant. probably so. > > Gnus and web browsing work OK. > > Fetchmail reports the error: > > fetchmail: Authorization failure on > brownh@hartford-hwp.com@pop.registeredsite.com > fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL) > > It looks to me like fetchmail is sending a garbled address to the mail > server. However, the ~/.fetchmailrc file is unchanged: > > poll pop.registeredsite.com > user "brownh@hartford-hwp.com" it doesn't look garbled to me, but run fetchmail as fetchmail -cv to get a nice verbose console output about what it's doing with out actually fetching the mail. > > At the time the system ceased working, there was a burst of unusual > reports in my messages log. > > Oct 25 15:35:42 teufel gconfd (brownh-8670): Failed to send buffer .. snipped gconf errors... surely not related. provided you've got a normal network running, fetchmail should work. It doesn't give a rat's ass about gconf. A
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