Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...
On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 11:25:52 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> AW <debian.list.tracker@1024bits.com> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400
> > Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Did you ensure the fetchmail daemon is running?
> >
> > ps -A |grep fetchmail
> >
> > It's possible you will need to enable the service daemon...
> >
> > sudo systemctl enable fetchmail
> >
> > in order for it to start on host boot.
>
> I don't use the daemon. And the fact that a connection is being made
> should indicate it has nothing to do with the daemon... no?
>
> I've always run fetchmail either from cron or manually.
>
> There is no daemon running on the other machine where all seems to be
> in order either.
>
> And yet something seems to be causing the verbose setting to produce
> insufficient output on the new host.
Time to go back to basics.
brian@desktop:~$ telnet pop.newsguy.com pop3
Trying 74.209.136.72...
Connected to pop.newsguy.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Qpopper (version 4.0.14) at jorel.newsguy.com starting.
user itsme
+OK Password required for itsme.
pass password1
-ERR [AUTH] Password supplied for "itsme" is incorrect.
+OK Pop server at jorel.newsguy.com signing off.
Connection closed by foreign host.
At a successfull login you can use commands like "list", "retr 1", "dele 3".
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