On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Jason Tishler wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:34:36AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 10:18:29PM +0800, Greg Matheson wrote: > > > When I installed fetchmail-6.2.2.1, fetchmail started refusing to > > > use my .fetchmailrc. I think the requirement that permissions be > > > 600 on it is new.
> > No, I've been patching fetchmail to skip this permissions check due to > > the following: > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC44 > I just tried fetchmail after performing the following: > $ chmod 777 ~/.fetchmailrc > and fetchmail started successfully. So, AFAICT, my refreshed patch > seems to be OK. Maybe a different (i.e., new) check is failing? The error I get is: $ fetchmail fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from 140.126.111.5 fetchmail: Query status=4 (PROTOCOL) When I comment out the # auth ssh section in my fetchmailrc, it starts working again. But the --auth ssh option on the command line fails with the following: fetchmail: mailbox selection failed fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from mail.chinmin.edu.tw fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from mail.chinmin.edu.tw fetchmail: Query status=4 (PROTOCOL) I can ssh into the shell account on the server. -- Greg Matheson Teaching: leaving Dr Bean's Penpal Pool fingerprints over the tabula rasa. Address: palpool --Dr Bean Domain: @cn91.chinmin.edu.tw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
