On Thursday 09 July 2015 12:54:07 Martin G. McCormick wrote: > 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 marti...@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 marti...@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.
As someone else has pointed out, it looks as though your username is wrong. Most POP3 mailhosts require the full email address, with the @domain bit. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201507091310.16659.lisi.re...@gmail.com