Egad stumped by fetchmail ...
I'm having a problem with fetchmail. Something that has not arisen in
some 15 yrs of linux use.
This post is a tad bit verbose... but it seemed necessary to make it
clear why I am somewhat flummoxed.
Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet:
I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie), to a vm running
on a windows hosts.
I now have it setup, and been using it for a while.
I allowed my account with online POP3 server (newsguy.com) to lapse
momentarily and, naturally, saw I was not retrieving mail.
OK, its happened at least twice before over the years.
But this time, ever since renewing my account... my new main wrk
host... also running Debian Jessie, but now as a vbox guest. Can not
fetch mail.
Both hosts use the same ~/.fetchmailrc and same version of fetchmail.
There is a notable difference between old and new hosts in that `old'
is running exim4 light and `new' is running exim4-heavy.
In the second set of output below we see a lot more output and
different results.
It seems odd that I can view and access the mail with web interface at
newsguy.com but cannot retrieve it with the `new' host.
Please NOTE that although hostname and my UID are different, the
~/fetchmailrc file presents the exact same credentials in both cases.
I have two inboxes on mewsguy so fetchmailrc looks like:
=====
poll pop.newsguy.com proto POP3 user reader password xxxxxxx
poll pop.newsguy.com proto POP3 user deleteme password xxxxxx
=====
A fetchmail run on new host:
( with: hostname `dv' UID `harry'):
fetchmail -vvvac (Those flags tell fetchmail to be verbose (-vvv),
to look for new and read mail (-a), but only to check what is there
and do not pull the messages (-c)),
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Fetchmail ouput:
harry > fetchmail -vvvac
fetchmail: Old UID list from pop.newsguy.com: <empty>
fetchmail: Old UID list from pop.newsguy.com: <empty>
fetchmail: Scratch list of UIDs: <empty>
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The same ~/fetchmailrc run on the old host
(hostname `reader' UID `reader')
Produces quite a lot more:
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Fetchmail output:
reader > fetchmail -vvvac
Old UID list from pop.newsguy.com: <empty>
Old UID list from pop.newsguy.com: <empty>
Scratch list of UIDs: <empty>
fetchmail: --check mode enabled, not fetching mail
fetchmail: 6.3.26 querying pop.newsguy.com (protocol POP3) at Mon 11 Aug 2014 08:32:44 AM EDT: poll started
Trying to connect to 74.209.136.72/110...connected.
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Qpopper (version 4.0.14) at jorel.newsguy.com starting.
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Capability list follows
fetchmail: POP3< TOP
fetchmail: POP3< USER
fetchmail: POP3< LOGIN-DELAY 0
fetchmail: POP3< EXPIRE NEVER
fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES
fetchmail: POP3< AUTH-RESP-CODE
fetchmail: POP3< X-MANGLE
fetchmail: POP3< X-MACRO
fetchmail: POP3< X-LOCALTIME Mon, 11 Aug 2014 05:36:44 -0700
fetchmail: POP3< IMPLEMENTATION Qpopper-version-4.0.14
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> USER reader
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required for reader.
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK reader has 12 visible messages (0 hidden) in 725015 octets.
fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 12 725015
12 messages for reader at pop.newsguy.com (725015 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Pop server at jorel.newsguy.com signing off.
fetchmail: 6.3.26 querying pop.newsguy.com (protocol POP3) at Mon 11 Aug 2014 08:32:45 AM EDT: poll completed
Merged UID list from pop.newsguy.com: <empty>
fetchmail: 6.3.26 querying pop.newsguy.com (protocol POP3) at Mon 11 Aug 2014 08:32:45 AM EDT: poll started
Trying to connect to 74.209.136.72/110...connected.
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Qpopper (version 4.0.14) at jorel.newsguy.com starting.
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Capability list follows
fetchmail: POP3< TOP
fetchmail: POP3< USER
fetchmail: POP3< LOGIN-DELAY 0
fetchmail: POP3< EXPIRE NEVER
fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES
fetchmail: POP3< AUTH-RESP-CODE
fetchmail: POP3< X-MANGLE
fetchmail: POP3< X-MACRO
fetchmail: POP3< X-LOCALTIME Mon, 11 Aug 2014 05:36:45 -0700
fetchmail: POP3< IMPLEMENTATION Qpopper-version-4.0.14
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> USER deleteme
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required for deleteme.
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK deleteme has 0 visible messages (0 hidden) in 0 octets.
fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 0
fetchmail: No mail for deleteme at pop.newsguy.com
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Pop server at jorel.newsguy.com signing off.
fetchmail: 6.3.26 querying pop.newsguy.com (protocol POP3) at Mon 11 Aug 2014 08:32:45 AM EDT: poll completed
Merged UID list from pop.newsguy.com: <empty>
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
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