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Re: fetchmail timeout



On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 06:35:04PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> hi,
> I have the following problem with fetchmail:
>     fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for server imap.gmail.com.
>     here is my .fetchmailrc

If I followed correctly, you're trying to access gmail at
the "traditional" imap port (that's 143). There is nobody
there answering the calls. Try imaps (i.e. 993), either through
fetchmail's option "-P 993" or "--service imaps".

Perhaps you'll have to play with options --ssl (and possibly
with --sslproto, although that's improbable). See manpage.

And, oh, I agree with the others. Try to avoid Google as
your mail provider.

HTH
-- tomás

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