On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Karthik Vishwanath wrote about, fetchmail error:
> I have another user account that I use purely for college-based stuff.
> The helpdesk tells me that the server supports POP3 (as is confirmed by
> fetchmail). There are a couple of caveats about this now: I log on to the
> local machine (at home) as karthik. I have a name on the blitz server as
> Karthik.Vishwanath which I have aliased as karthikv. So I can log onto
> the local blitzmail (in windows) as karthikv. The helpdesk tells me that
> the my pop server is "donner.dartmouth.edu" and SMTP is
> "mailhub.dartmouth.edu". So my .fetchmailrc is :
> ------------------------
> set postmaster "karthik"
> set bouncemail
> set properties ""
> poll donner.dartmouth.edu with proto POP3 port 25
> user "karthik.vishwanath" there is karthik here
> ------------------------
>
> On running fetchmail -v -v this is what I get:
> -------------------------
> fetchmail: 5.1.0 querying donner.dartmouth.edu (protocol POP3) at Mon, 27
> Mar 2000 22:52:26 -0500 (EST)
> fetchmail: POP3< 220 donner.Dartmouth.EDU server
> ready (BlitzServ 3.8.3 POP+Kerberos 03/09/00).
> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
>
> fetchmail: POP3< 221 donner.Dartmouth.EDU saying so
> long for now!
> fetchmail: client/server protocol error while
> fetching from donner.dartmouth.edu
> fetchmail: Query status=4
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 4
> Done.
> -------------------------
>
> Can anyone tell me whats happening?
The answer here is in the man page, EXIT CODES are stated near the bottom
of the man page for fetchmail.
4 Some sort of fatal protocol error was detected.
I would consider your .fetchmailrc to be createing the error, (altho i do
not use fetcmail myself anymore) it could be something else.
I would try the following;
cd ~
cp .fetchmailrc rcfetchmail
edit .fetchmailrc
just have the following lines;
#!/bin/sh
defaults proto pop3
user "account_name_here"
poll donner.dartmouth.edu
pass "passwd_here"
save file
chmod 0710 .fetchmailrc
fecthmail -v -v donner.dartmouth.edu
Works for me.
> Thanks,
> -Karthik.
> -------------------------------------
> Whatever you want to do, you have to do something else first.
>
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