Re: Fetchmail not working after upgrade to Debian 9.9 (Stretch)
On Thursday 13 June 2019 09:58:39 pm Joe Aquilina wrote:
> Hello all.
> A colleague has very recently upgraded his Debian system at home from
> Jessie (not sure which version) to Stretch (9.9) and from that moment,
> fetchmail has failed to collect emails. I/we are relatively
> inexperienced with diagnosing & fixing such problems and are looking
> for any advice people here may be able to give us to overcome this
> problem. When fetchmail polls the email server, we get the following
> error message:
> Jun 14 09:21:02 localhost fetchmail[15672]: Your OpenSSL version does
> not support SSLv3.Jun 14 09:21:02 localhost fetchmail[15672]: SSL
> connection failed.Jun 14 09:21:02 localhost fetchmail[15672]: socket
> error while fetching from cccmail@mail.chem.com.auJun 14 09:21:02
its rather plainly telling you your ssl version is too old. Perhaps it
did not get upgraded with the rest of the system? Make sure the
security channel for your repo is enabled.
> localhost fetchmail[15672]: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> Below is a copy of the .fetchmailrc file on that system (with any
> sensitive data replaced:
> set no bouncemail
> set postmaster "postmaster_details"
>
> poll email.server.name
> protocol pop3 port 995
> with uidl
> user "username" with password "secret" is
> "local_account" here
> with ssl and sslproto 'TLS1+'
> with sslfingerprint
> "AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA"
> with keep
> smtpaddress "local_smtp_server"
> mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
>
> We have a near identical machine here at work, that has been running
> Debian 9 for some time, and it is collecting emails from the relevant
> email server just fine.
> Any thoughts/suggestions welcome. Is there anything else that I can
> post here that might give those more knowledgeable than us a clue as
> to what we need to do to fix this?
> Thanks in advance.
> Cheers.
> Joe Aquilina
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> joeaquilina@westnet.com.au
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