fetchmail

king_of_inismac

ok,
having a little trouble setting up fetchmail.
Im trying to get my college mail from home.
I know other guys can do it, other than that I wouldnt have thought it possible.

My .fetchmailrc file is as follows:

poll "beacon.nuigalway.ie" # tell fetchmail where to look
protocol IMAP # we use the IMAP-protocol
username "my_college_username" # who am i ?
password "my_college_password" # passwords
mimedecode # automaticaly deal with mime (attachements)
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %s" # tell fetchmail which MDA to use

When i run fetchmail i get the following error:

fetchmail: Authorization failure on *******@beacon.nuigalway.ie
fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)

I've tried chaning the protocol to pop3, and that gives me a socket error..


any ideas much appreciated,

king

dahamsta

Originally posted by king_of_inismac
fetchmail: Authorization failure on *******@beacon.nuigalway.ie
fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)

Sure the username and password are right?

adam

king_of_inismac

ya, there right

fragile

What version of fetchmail are you using?

Try launching fetchmail with

--auth password

instead of having your password in .fetchmailrc. I think there is an issue with this in versions 5.6.8 or higher that gives an error like you described

niallb

fetchmail -v -v
will give you more information and should point to you
where things are going wrong.
It certainly looks username/password/hostname related,
but look out for TLS or SSL errors.
Your ssl protocol may be incompatible with the server.
Try in turn:
fetchmail -v -v --sslproto ssl2
fetchmail -v -v --sslproto ssl3
fetchmail -v -v --sslproto tls1

Add the word
keep
to your fetchmailrc just in case,
and then try removing the mda line.

Good luck,
NiallB