Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.
Bob Bernstein writes:
> Is there a special reason you do not post your .fetchmailrc file?
Yes. This is called a senior moment. It's when you forget to
include all the relevant information for which I apologize.
Here is the slightly obfuscated .fetchmailrc file. The
only obscured part is the password.
#./fetchmailrc for martin
# This file must be chmod 0600, owner fetchmail
# set polling time (10 minutes)
#
set daemon 600
set no bouncemail
defaults:
mda '/usr/bin/procmail'
antispam -1
batchlimit 0
#server settings
#poll suddenlink.net with protocol pop3
poll pop.suddenlink.net with proto POP3
# set username
user 'martin.m'
password 'SECRET'
End of .fetchmailrc settings
Running under --Version produces the following with
password redacted:
This is fetchmail release 6.3.18+GSS+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+NLS+KRB5.
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Eric S. Raymond
Copyright (C) 2004 Matthias Andree, Eric S. Raymond,
Robert M. Funk, Graham Wilson
Copyright (C) 2005 - 2006, 2010 Sunil Shetye
Copyright (C) 2005 - 2010 Matthias Andree
Fetchmail comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. For details,
please see the file COPYING in the source or documentation directory.
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)
Fallback MDA: (none)
Linux wb5agz 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 18 13:24:13 UTC 2015 i686 GNU/Linux
Taking options from command line and /home/martin/.fetchmailrc
Poll interval is 600 seconds
Idfile is /home/martin/.fetchids
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to martin.
Fetchmail will direct error mail to the postmaster.
Fetchmail will treat permanent errors as temporary (keep messages).
Options for retrieving from martin.m@pop.suddenlink.net:
True name of server is pop.suddenlink.net.
This host will be queried when no host is specified.
Password = "SOME_PASSWORD".
Protocol is POP3 (using default port).
All available authentication methods will be tried.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush off).
Oversized messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--limitflush off).
Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
Carriage-return stripping is enabled (stripcr on).
Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits off).
MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
No received-message limit (--fetchlimit 0).
Fetch message size limit is 100 (--fetchsizelimit 100).
Do binary search of UIDs during 3 out of 4 polls (--fastuidl 4).
No SMTP message batch limit (--batchlimit 0).
No forced expunges (--expunge 0).
Messages will be delivered with "/usr/bin/procmail".
Recognized listener spam block responses are: -1
No pre-connection command.
No post-connection command.
Single-drop mode: 1 local name recognized.
martin
No interface requirement specified.
No monitor interface specified.
No plugin command specified.
No plugout command specified.
No UIDs saved from this host.
No poll trace information will be added to the Received header.
Messages with bad headers will be rejected.
All that does match what I am expecting based on config.
Here is an actual session:
Old UID list from pop.suddenlink.net: <empty>
Scratch list of UIDs: <empty>
fetchmail: 6.3.18 querying pop.suddenlink.net (protocol POP3) at Thu Jul 9 06:19:20 2015: poll started
Trying to connect to 208.180.40.196/110...connected.
fetchmail: POP3< +OK InterMail POP3 server ready.
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Capability list follows
fetchmail: POP3< TOP
fetchmail: POP3< USER
fetchmail: POP3< RESP_CODES
fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING
fetchmail: POP3< EXPIRE NEVER
fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< IMPLEMENTATION Openwave Email vM.8.04.03.20 201-2389-100-164-20
fetchmail: POP3< 150330
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: pop.suddenlink.net: opportunistic upgrade to TLS failed, trying to continue.
fetchmail: POP3> USER martin.m
fetchmail: POP3< +OK please send PASS command
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< -ERR invalid user name or password.
fetchmail: invalid user name or password.
fetchmail: Authorization failure on martin.m@pop.suddenlink.net
fetchmail: For help, see http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#R15
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK martin.m InterMail POP3 server signing off.
fetchmail: 6.3.18 querying pop.suddenlink.net (protocol POP3) at Thu Jul 9 06:19:21 2015: poll completed
Merged UID list from pop.suddenlink.net: <empty>
fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)
fetchmail: normal termination, status 3
end of session output
It looks as if the server is wanting the password for
retrieving mail and I am not sending it. I actually thought this
happened as one retrieved the messages so if that is the case,
what else do I add in .fetchmailrc?
Thank you.
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