Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-04-29 Thread tomas
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 01:27:07PM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 at 14:21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > That means you've to carry a funny dongle with you all the time? > > Or is the "second factor" that oh-so-secure "smart" phone? > > Three choices for second factor: > > 1

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-04-29 Thread Jonathan Siegle
days but also need to relay authentication to the company's server. I would like to use IMAP to access email in order to circumvent Outlook, but AFAIK there is no way for fetchmail or other command line tools to authenticate via web page and use the IMAP Server then (Thunderbird is able to do

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-04-29 Thread tomas
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 01:11:08PM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Dystopian is right. Our organization, using O365, has moved to > "multi-factor authentication" without consultation and I can no longer > use gnus, for instance. Absolutely horrible. That means you've to carry a funny dongle with yo

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-04-29 Thread Eric S Fraga
Dystopian is right. Our organization, using O365, has moved to "multi-factor authentication" without consultation and I can no longer use gnus, for instance. Absolutely horrible. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.5 on Debian bullseye/sid

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-04-29 Thread tomas
es. Especially this > 3D authentication is not likely to be implemented in the opensource > software and non of it works for me. Yes. Half-a-life ago, while in dystopian Bigcorp environment, I had to bribe Windows admins to keep up Outlook's IMAP with... NTLM auth. Fetchmail worked fine [1]

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-04-29 Thread deloptes
Kushal Kumaran wrote: > I think IMAP should work regardless.  My workplace uses federated > authentication, and davmail works fine for me. I think it depends how it is setup and what policy applies. Especially this 3D authentication is not likely to be implemented in the opensource software and n

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-04-28 Thread Kushal Kumaran
pany's server. > > I would like to use IMAP to access email in order to > circumvent Outlook, but AFAIK there is no way for fetchmail > or other command line tools to authenticate via web page and > use the IMAP Server then (Thunderbird is able to do this but > I don't want

how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-04-28 Thread Gregor Zattler
no way for fetchmail or other command line tools to authenticate via web page and use the IMAP Server then (Thunderbird is able to do this but I don't want to use Thunderbird). I hoped davmail would be able to do that but I have no clue how to tell davmail to authenticate in this way. AFAIK the

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 06 apr 20, 10:33:36, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Long term you might need a hold or pin for that (my preference would be > > a pin). > >hi Andrei, >I felt that the description of the pinning process is rather >confusing, either in th

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-06 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Long term you might need a hold or pin for that (my preference would be a pin). hi Andrei, I felt that the description of the pinning process is rather confusing, either in the apt-get man or the aptitude man. Can you tell me what whould be

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 apr 20, 19:21:31, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > let them remove getmail if thay are not able to support it. > > As I'm perfectly happy with the present Debian version, > > I'll just keep it, disabling my upgrade process, until getmail support >

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-05 Thread mick crane
On 2020-04-04 21:46, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 04 apr 20, 19:30:05, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > You have to keep also a Python 2 interpreter for it. same question: why would it disapear ? Because it's not supported upstream anymore. https://legacy

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-05 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: let them remove getmail if thay are not able to support it. As I'm perfectly happy with the present Debian version, I'll just keep it, disabling my upgrade process, until getmail support reappears. actually, I was too drastic: as "apt-get upgrade" g

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-05 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, songbird wrote: Celejar wrote: ... https://marc.info/?l=getmail&m=157365887605305&w=2 let them remove getmail if thay are not able to support it. As I'm perfectly happy with the present Debian version, I'll just keep it, disabling my upgrade process, until getmail supp

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-05 Thread songbird
Celejar wrote: ... > https://marc.info/?l=getmail&m=157365887605305&w=2 well that didn't happen and as soon as anyone expressed any interest in carrying patches Osamu pretty much just said take over the package because he wasn't interested in it any more. and then the topic dropped because nobo

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-04 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 06:34:41 -0400 songbird wrote: > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > >>>> I have the following problem with fetchmail: > >>>> fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for server > >>>> imap.gmail.com. > > > >hi, &g

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 apr 20, 19:30:05, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > You have to keep also a Python 2 interpreter for it. > > same question: why would it disapear ? Because it's not supported upstream anymore. https://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/ Debia

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-04 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: ... > in my nosing around i've found this: > > https://gitlab.com/dkg/getmail/commits/python3 i meant that to be: https://gitlab.com/dkg/getmail songbird

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-04 Thread songbird
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> You have to keep also a Python 2 interpreter for it. > >same question: why would it disapear ? > > best regards, because eventually it stops being packaged or kept up and gets left behind long enough that nobody cares to

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: You have to keep also a Python 2 interpreter for it. same question: why would it disapear ? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 apr 20, 12:44:38, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, songbird wrote: > > > yes, but don't get too complacent as eventually > > getmail goes away if nobody ports it to python3. > > >thank you for the advice, but I imagine it will not disappear from my disk, >even if it

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, songbird wrote: yes, but don't get too complacent as eventually getmail goes away if nobody ports it to python3. thank you for the advice, but I imagine it will not disappear from my disk, even if it is no more supported. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-04 Thread songbird
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: >>>> I have the following problem with fetchmail: >>>> fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for server >>>> imap.gmail.com. > > hi, >the fix I found was to abandon fetchmail. I'm using now getmail, which

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
I have the following problem with fetchmail: fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for server imap.gmail.com. hi, the fix I found was to abandon fetchmail. I'm using now getmail, which works perfectly best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-04-03 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/29/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 06:35:04PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: >> hi, >> I have the following problem with fetchmail: >> fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for server >> imap.gmail.com. >> here is

Re: fetchmail timeout (fwd)

2020-03-29 Thread mick crane
On 2020-03-29 13:24, Reco wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 01:46:12PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: Mike fetchmail, getmail gives a Time Out OP did you select "allow non-standard email client" or whatever it is at gmail ? use SimpleIMAPSSLReciever ? [retriever] type=SimpleIMAPSS

Re: fetchmail timeout (fwd)

2020-03-29 Thread Reco
Please CC the list. And please refrain from top posting. On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 01:46:12PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > Mike fetchmail, getmail gives a Time Out Two options left. > >1) Try using POP3 instead of IMAP. > > > >3) Make a forward to your gmx mailbox from gmail. Reco

Re: fetchmail timeout (fwd)

2020-03-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:06:19AM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > as requested, here is the output of fetchmail -v So, login's good: > fetchmail: IMAP> A0002 LOGIN "pierre.frenkiel" * > fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE Q

Re: fetchmail timeout (fwd)

2020-03-29 Thread Kamil Jońca
Pierre Frenkiel writes: > as requested, here is the output of fetchmail -v > you can see at the end "reading message ...", but I can't find it > > please reply pierre.frenk...@gmx.com > [...] > fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 EXPUNGE > fetchmail: IMAP< A000

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-03-29 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 06:35:04PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I have the following problem with fetchmail: > fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for server imap.gmail.com. > here is my .fetchmailrc If I followed correctly, you're trying to ac

Re: fetchmail timeout (fwd)

2020-03-29 Thread mick crane
On 2020-03-29 09:06, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: as requested, here is the output of fetchmail -v you can see at the end "reading message ...", but I can't find it with gmail you have to select "allow non-conforming clients" or something. I had problems with fetchmai

fetchmail timeout (fwd)

2020-03-29 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
as requested, here is the output of fetchmail -v you can see at the end "reading message ...", but I can't find it please reply pierre.frenk...@gmx.com fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.4.0.beta4 daemon fetchmail: 6.4.0.beta4 querying imap.gmail.com (protocol IMAP) at Sun 29

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-03-28 Thread 황병희
Pierre Frenkiel writes: > poll imap.gmail.com with proto IMAP auth password It is just side comments. There is alternative software. The name is getmail[*]. The getmail supports Gmail's label. It is available to downloading messages from each Gmail's label. Personaly i use getmail with Gnus. Alw

[OT] COVID-19 (Was: Re: fetchmail timeout)

2020-03-28 Thread 황병희
Cindy Sue Causey writes: > .. > While checking trending one more time to see if there were any current > references, a new trending topic is that Twitter direct messages are > taking a hit right now. It all seems an understandable, predictable > social networking side effect in light of our W

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-03-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/28/20, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I have the following problem with fetchmail: > fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for server > imap.gmail.com. > here is my .fetchmailrc Poking my nose in to say that Gmail AND Youtube were down in last couple days. I

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-03-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 06:35:04PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I have the following problem with fetchmail: > fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for server imap.gmail.com. > here is my .fetchmailrc fetchmail -v Reco

Re: fetchmail timeout

2020-03-28 Thread Henning Follmann
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 06:35:04PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I have the following problem with fetchmail: > fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for server imap.gmail.com. > here is my .fetchmailrc > > > set logfile "/data/home/frenkiel/lo

fetchmail timeout

2020-03-28 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, I have the following problem with fetchmail: fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for server imap.gmail.com. here is my .fetchmailrc set logfile "/data/home/frenkiel/log/fetchmail" set pidfile "/data/home/frenkiel/.fetchmail.pid" set postmaster "f

Re: Fetchmail not working after upgrade to Debian 9.9 (Stretch)

2019-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
;> Hello all. > >>>>> A colleague has very recently upgraded his Debian system at home > >>>>> from Jessie (not sure which version) to Stretch (9.9) and from > >>>>> that moment, fetchmail has failed to collect emails. I/we are > >>>

Re: Fetchmail not working after upgrade to Debian 9.9 (Stretch)

2019-06-16 Thread Joe Aquilina
that moment, fetchmail has failed to collect emails. I/we are relatively inexperienced with diagnosing & fixing such problems and are looking for any advice people here may be able to give us to overcome this problem. When fetchmail polls the email server, we get the following error message: Ju

Re: Fetchmail not working after upgrade to Debian 9.9 (Stretch)

2019-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
ot sure which version) to Stretch (9.9) and from > > >> that moment, fetchmail has failed to collect emails. I/we are > > >> relatively inexperienced with diagnosing & fixing such problems > > >> and are looking for any advice people here may be able

Re: Re: Fetchmail not working after upgrade to Debian 9.9 (Stretch)

2019-06-13 Thread Joe Aquilina
>> On Thursday 13 June 2019 09:58:39 pm Joe Aquilina wrote: >> Hello all. >> A colleague has very recently upgraded his Debian system at home from >> Jessie (not sure which version) to Stretch (9.9) and from that moment, >> fetchmail has failed to colle

Re: Fetchmail not working after upgrade to Debian 9.9 (Stretch)

2019-06-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 13 June 2019 09:58:39 pm Joe Aquilina wrote: > Hello all. > A colleague has very recently upgraded his Debian system at home from > Jessie (not sure which version) to Stretch (9.9) and from that moment, > fetchmail has failed to collect emails. I/we are relatively > ine

Fetchmail not working after upgrade to Debian 9.9 (Stretch)

2019-06-13 Thread Joe Aquilina
Hello all. A colleague has very recently upgraded his Debian system at home from Jessie (not sure which version) to Stretch (9.9) and from that moment, fetchmail has failed to collect emails. I/we are relatively inexperienced with diagnosing & fixing such problems and are looking for any ad

Re: fetchmail

2018-11-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2018 19 Nov 02:10 -0600, mick crane wrote: > fetchmail for me had a problem with the ssl certificate of gmail which keeps > changing seemingly depending on which server connect to. Probably is fixable > but was easier to use getmail. I don't have a gmail account so I haven&#

Re: fetchmail

2018-11-19 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-19 00:33, Nate Bargmann wrote: I installed the Sid version on this Buster installation and it works just fine. I simply downloaded it and installed it manually. Aptitude puts it in the Obsolete and Locally Created Packages section. Shrug. - Nate fetchmail for me had a problem

Re: fetchmail

2018-11-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
I installed the Sid version on this Buster installation and it works just fine. I simply downloaded it and installed it manually. Aptitude puts it in the Obsolete and Locally Created Packages section. Shrug. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds.

Re: fetchmail

2018-11-18 Thread Glenn English
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 8:43 PM Brian wrote: > How does Dovecot get into a thread about fetchmail? Well, a little confusion, a little impatience, and a little panic. I was using Thunderbird, and I did something to the DCot config, and email quit working. I'd spent a couple days fight

Re: fetchmail

2018-11-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
spool could be quarrantined and if you haven't read most of that mail you could end up loosing all of it. On Sun, 18 Nov 2018, Glenn English wrote: > Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 15:27:55 > From: Glenn English > To: debianUsers > Subject: Re: fetchmail > Resent-Date: Sun, 18 Nov

Re: fetchmail

2018-11-18 Thread Brian
On Sun 18 Nov 2018 at 20:27:55 +, Glenn English wrote: > Thanks much, all. > > Dovecot's config was bent. Working version recovered from backup. Not > at all sure what was wrong. How does Dovecot get into a thread about fetchmail? The mind boggles. > Dovecot, IMHO,

Re: fetchmail

2018-11-18 Thread Glenn English
Thanks much, all. Dovecot's config was bent. Working version recovered from backup. Not at all sure what was wrong. Dovecot, IMHO, is a mixed blessing... But I'm going to look into getmail and isync. I didn't know they existed. Mutt rules, I think. -- Glenn English

Re: fetchmail

2018-11-18 Thread Brian
On Sun 18 Nov 2018 at 19:05:48 +, Glenn English wrote: > It seems that fetchmail doesn't exist in Buster (Buster's apt and > aptitude say it doesn't exist -- aptitude in Stretch shows a package). > > This means I can't use Mutt if my email is in a bo

Re: fetchmail

2018-11-18 Thread Steve Kemp
> Anybody know: am I wrong somehow; why fetchmail went away; if Buster'd > be upset with the Stretch package? Yup - see this bug for details: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768843 You might consider an alternative such as getmail, or isync. Steve -- https://steve.fi/

Re: fetchmail

2018-11-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 07:05:48PM +, Glenn English wrote: > It seems that fetchmail doesn't exist in Buster (Buster's apt and > aptitude say it doesn't exist -- aptitude in Stretch shows a package). True. The reason for the removal was #768843, currently

Re: fetchmail

2018-11-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 07:05:48PM +, Glenn English wrote: > It seems that fetchmail doesn't exist in Buster (Buster's apt and > aptitude say it doesn't exist -- aptitude in Stretch shows a package). > According to the package tracker [0], the migration has been

fetchmail

2018-11-18 Thread Glenn English
It seems that fetchmail doesn't exist in Buster (Buster's apt and aptitude say it doesn't exist -- aptitude in Stretch shows a package). This means I can't use Mutt if my email is in a box on the other side of the LAN? Anybody know: am I wrong somehow; why fetchmail went

fetchmail ssl issue - was Problems communicating with and between servers after upgrade

2016-09-20 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Independent of our recent issues, we've had a longstanding problem with fetchmail. from /var/log/syslog: "Warning: the connection is insecure, continuing anyways. (Better use --sslcertck!)" It's something we've tried to resolve from time to time but gave u

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3 Big Progress

2015-07-21 Thread Martin G. McCormick
To all who have helped me so far, a huge thank you! I soon realized that the subject line of this message is incorrect since pop3 covers only the delivery task and I got that working a couple of weeks or so ago. The indescribably joyful experience of being able to successfully authenticate

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Martin G. McCormick (mar...@server1.shellworld.net): > Paul E Condon writes: > > I use msmtp, not exim, even though exim comes already installed by > > Debian. Msmtp has its own tiny config file which can be located at > > ~/.msmtprc You can put there whatever you need to satisfy you ISP a

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-17 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Paul E Condon writes: > I use msmtp, not exim, even though exim comes already installed by > Debian. Msmtp has its own tiny config file which can be located at > ~/.msmtprc You can put there whatever you need to satisfy you ISP and > have no fear of exim mucking about with it. Of course, don't rem

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-14 Thread Martin G. McCormick
David Wright writes: A number of very good suggestions > The other thing you could try is a handcrafted email, which takes > about 5 minutes, by typing the following into a bash prompt: > > > $ echo -e -n '\0marti...@suddenlink.net\0SECRET' | base64 > aBase64stringIsEmitted= > $ openssl

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-14 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Paul E Condon writes: > I use msmtp, not exim, even though exim comes already installed by > Debian. Msmtp has its own tiny config file which can be located at > ~/.msmtprc You can put there whatever you need to satisfy you ISP and > have no fear of exim mucking about with it. Of course, don't rem

Gloss on the example of sending authenticated email, was Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-12 Thread David Wright
I believe in learning by doing, so I posted an example that one can actually do. However, private emails show that it's caused a little confusion. To make it as easy as I could, I wrote the example using the information posted by the OP, and using the OP's own placeholder, SECRET, as the password.

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk): > Quoting Martin G. McCormick (mar...@server1.shellworld.net): > > The mainlog file displays the error that > > smtp.suddenlink.net is reporting > > > > 2015-07-11 06:29:26 1ZDsyD-0001Rm-PO ** mar...@shellworld.net R=smarthost > > T=remote_smtp_sma

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-11 Thread Paul E Condon
; Here is a short snippet from their instructions for > using pop: > >Incoming Mail Server: pop.suddenlink.net >Incoming mail port: 110 >Incoming mail port (SSL): 995 > > end of snippet > > It all starts out OK: > > fetchmail: 6.3.18 querying p

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Martin G. McCormick (mar...@server1.shellworld.net): > David Wright writes: > > I don't see what the issue is. "People" with different usernames > > send mail from this system. > > Correct. After looking at what I posted, it is confusing. Let's > try again. > > > Do you mean /etc/mailname

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-11 Thread Curt
On 2015-07-11, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > > > The smarthost sees mar...@suddenlink.net and what it should see > in the From: line is marti...@suddenlink.net > Here are all the non-comments from update-exim4.conf.conf > Cannot this be defined in /etc/email-addresses? mar...@suddenlink.net: mart

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-11 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 07:43:49 -0500, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > David Wright writes: > > I don't see what the issue is. "People" with different usernames > > send mail from this system. > > Correct. After looking at what I posted, it is confusing. Let's > try again. > > > Do you mean /etc/mai

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-11 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: If I hope to send mail through smtp.suddenlink.net, it must see marti...@suddenlink.net plus the password also used to retrieve pop3 mail and the retrieval does work. Does your MUA set "From:" to marti...@suddenlink.net, and also set the envel

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-11 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, David Wright wrote: dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587' Syntax is correct. I've not tried that port. Must do so sometime. I think we're learning here in this thread to avoid generalizations, but 587 is known as the "submit" port. I have had good luck with it. Th

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-11 Thread Martin G. McCormick
David Wright writes: > I don't see what the issue is. "People" with different usernames > send mail from this system. Correct. After looking at what I posted, it is confusing. Let's try again. > Do you mean /etc/mailname? What's actually in there? wb5agz.swbell.net That should never show up on

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bob Bernstein (poo...@ruptured-duck.com): > Maybe it's me; I'm not as spry as I used to be, but I am having > difficulty following you. Ditto > On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > > >dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587' > > That looks fine to me, if the syntax for speci

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Martin G. McCormick (mar...@server1.shellworld.net): > Bob Bernstein writes: > > what do you put in exim's config as the name of your smarthost? > > dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587' > > I have figured out the first thing that is wrong but am > not sure how to fix it. When reg

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
Maybe it's me; I'm not as spry as I used to be, but I am having difficulty following you. On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587' That looks fine to me, if the syntax for specifying a port is correct for exim (I simply don't know one way or t

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-10 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Bob Bernstein writes: > what do you put in exim's config as the name of your smarthost? dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587' I have figured out the first thing that is wrong but am not sure how to fix it. When registering a user ID on Suddenlink's email gateway, I had to pick a slightl

Outgoing mail, was Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-10 Thread David Wright
. Please fix your /etc/hosts setup." which I ignore as it appears to have no effect both at home and in motels etc. mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail (sets dc_eximconfig_configtype) foo (my hostname, sets /etc/mailname) smtp.xxx.xxx.xxx::25025;smtp.yyy.yyy (smarthosts, s

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: The job now is to get the out-bound authentication to work to the smtp server. what do you put in exim's config as the name of your smarthost? -- I am not a loony. Why should I be tarred with the epithet 'loony' merely because I have a pet

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-10 Thread Martin G. McCormick
The job now is to get the out-bound authentication to work to the smtp server. One should use dpkg-configure exim4-config to set exim to use a smarthost for out-bound messages and rely on fetchmail for the incoming mail. Most of this is relatively easy and straight-forward except for one

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 9 Jul 2015, John D. Hendrickson wrote: but ALL DAMN DAY every day it got IP attacks purportedly from china. It's of course still like that out there, ALL DAMN DAY, the Wild West, Main St., Dodge City, only it's mostly (I think) SSH brute force attempts. I show skeptical friends my l

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
op3.slingshot.co.nz with protocol pop3 > user cbannister > password > > which I call with an alias 'fm': > > alias fm='fetchmail -e 50 -m /usr/bin/maildrop' > > Maybe the clue is in the phrase '... *most* POP3 mailhosts ...' >

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-09 Thread Chris Bannister
urther squawks. I don't know whether to feel stupid > or joyful. Just to throw a fly in the ointment: tal% less ../.fetchmailrc poll pop3.slingshot.co.nz with protocol pop3 user cbannister password **** which I call with an alias 'fm': alias fm='fetchmail -e 50 -m

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 9 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: Lisi Reisz writes: As someone else has pointed out, it looks as though your username is wrong. I don't know whether to feel stupid or joyful. You get to feel both at the same time. Enjoy! -- "No matter how big the problem is, you can always

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-09 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Lisi Reisz writes: > 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 This one is no exception. Thank you!! I don't know how many times I have read and re-read the lines in that .fet

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
ologize. > > 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

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-09 Thread Martin G. McCormick
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

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-08 Thread Memnon Anon
uddenlink.com/Internet/Pages/EmailandNewsServerNames.aspx : "Note:Username: your full email address, including the @domain.net at the end (i.e. @suddenlink.net)" > fetchmail: 6.3.18 querying pop.suddenlink.net (protocol POP3) at Wed Jul 8 > 21:23:25 2015: poll started > Trying to connect to 20

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-08 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: I am trying to get a debian squeeze system to pull mail from my cable provider's pop3 server. Is there a special reason you do not post your .fetchmailrc file? Or, the output of 'fetchmail --version'? And, you have given one

Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-08 Thread Martin G. McCormick
oming Mail Server: pop.suddenlink.net Incoming mail port: 110 Incoming mail port (SSL): 995 end of snippet It all starts out OK: fetchmail: 6.3.18 querying pop.suddenlink.net (protocol POP3) at Wed Jul 8 21:23:25 2015: poll started Trying to connect to 208.180.40.196/110...conn

Re: SOLVED Fetchmail; continually losing authentication with gmx.net

2014-11-29 Thread Ron Leach
On 26/11/2014 07:50, Frédéric Marchal wrote: Fetchmail certainly uses the system ssl library and SSLv3 was recently disabled system wide for security reasons (see the poodle attack). [snip] You'll have to investigate a bit but my theory is that fetchmail is requesting SSLv3. As it is dis

Re: Fetchmail (long); continually losing authentication with gmx.net

2014-11-25 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2014-11-25 21:34 GMT+01:00 Ron Leach : > Did the trick. Logs show that fetchmail is > 1. using opportunistic TLS on pop3, but > 2. Sometimes times out after receiving a certificate, and then > 3. Fetchmail declines to use TLS with the *next* user, but > 4. gmx complains about not

Re: Fetchmail (long); continually losing authentication with gmx.net

2014-11-25 Thread Ron Leach
On 24/11/2014 21:02, Frédéric Marchal wrote: The best thing to do when debugging that kind of problem is to have a look at the content of /etc/init.d/fetchmail, find the actual fetchmail command started by the script and run the command manually from the shell. Don't forget to remov

Re: Fetchmail; continually losing authentication with gmx.net

2014-11-24 Thread Frédéric Marchal
Le Monday 24 November 2014 20:27:25, Ron Leach a écrit : > List, good evening, > > I've looked through the man fetchmail pages and I'd like to get some > extra logging but I can't seem to pass the -vv parameter to fetchmail. > Fetchmail starts as a daemon, and I

Fetchmail; continually losing authentication with gmx.net

2014-11-24 Thread Ron Leach
List, good evening, We use Fetchmail to collect email from various addresses and providers. The incoming mail is passed to Exim for delivery to mailboxes, and served to local MUAs on the network using IMAP provided by Dovecot. We've had this architecture in place since Debian Etch (D4

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
ly noticed the difference in each > .fetchmailrc. host1 old, had the file to log to, commented >host2 new, had the file to log to, uncommented > > So on host2 logging went to the file... > Gad what a bozo... If you do go to a faster alternative to fetchmail, I strongly suggest th

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 14:50:30 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> The oldhost is running exim4 light, while newhost is running >> exim4-heavy. > > Exim is only involved after the mail is collected. > >> But still the configuration files look the same.. I'm not seeing a >> reason why

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Bannister
. > > I'm afraid I have been screeching wolf when its only a very small > kitten. > > Apparently, my mail is being retrieved... but in total silence.. or > nearly so and I was dumb enough not to catch on for a bit. Not sure if this helpful, but I call fetchmail like this

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-12 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/12/14, Harry Putnam wrote: > Zenaan Harkness writes: >> Use getmail. >> >> I have used mpop. getmail maintainer lurks around here, so that's what >> I'm planning to use when I next stop pop DLing. > > No thanks. Fetchmail should be working. I

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 14:50:30 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > The oldhost is running exim4 light, while newhost is running > exim4-heavy. Exim is only involved after the mail is collected. > But still the configuration files look the same.. I'm not seeing a > reason why one is more verbose than th

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:25:52 -0400 Harry Putnam wrote: > And yet something seems to be causing the verbose setting to produce > insufficient output on the new host. > harry > fetchmail -vvvac > fetchmail: Old UID list from pop.newsguy.com: > fetchmail:

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 11:25:52 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> AW writes: >> >> > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400 >> > Harry Putnam wrote: >> > >> > > Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet: >> > > I&

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