rich pieri writes: > On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 11:17:49 -0400 > dan moylan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > trying fetchmail again after some years, but getting authentication > > failure. > Possibly not helpful here but I switched from fetchmail to getmail > around 5 years ago. Easier setup than fetchmail, doesn't require a local > MTA (but can do things like invoke procmail directly), just generally > better for my needs. > That said, check your server authentication logs if you can for the > specific failure cause. The + addressing may be the problem but it's > impossible to be sure without knowing what exactly the server is barfing > on. just where are the authentication logs? i tried journalctl and didn't see anything appropriate. looking at .fetchmailrc 01 # .fetchmailrc 02 03 set logfile fetchmail.log 04 poll moylan.us protocol POP3 05 user "moylanus" pass "xxxxxx" is moylan preconnect "date >> fetchmail.log" 06 user "jdm+moylan.us" pass "xxxxxx" is moylan preconnect "date >> fetchmail.log" 07 user "jdm" pass "xxxxxx" is moylan preconnect "date >> fetchmail.log" 08 smtp localhost line 05 gets the mail from ~/mail/new with no problems, but lines 06 and 07 looking for mail from i must be doing something wrong there, but what? tia, olw dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-777-0207 (cel) [email protected] www.moylan.us [BLM] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
