On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:37:59 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > $ hostname > teufel > > $ hostname -a > teufel Here I have: $ hostname wira $ hostname -a wira and fetchmail runs pretty well, including SSL. Why would the whole fingerprint come up if you didn't use SSL ? Have you tried telnet, then ? Does it work ? Can you show your .fetchmailrc ? Uwe