[fetchmail-users] Re: fetchmail SSL problems on SunOS

[Thomas W. <to...@to...>]

Hello,

I am trying to use fetchmail with SSL on SunOS.
First I had some trouble getting it compiled with a local (non-root) 
installation of openssl.
After a first hint from Rob Funk (thank you), 
I used the following with fetchmail 6.2.9rc2:
demsn702@sulphur:~> ./configure --with-ssl=/home/demsn702/opt/openssl-0.9.8 \
--includedir=/home/demsn702/opt/openssl-0.9.8/include


(Actually, having given it the openssl dir with --with-ssl, I would not 
have expected that I have to tell it to look for the openssl include 
files additionally, but that's a minor point.)



Compile/make problems:

Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
dlclose                             /home/demsn702/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o)  (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1)
interface_init                      fetchmail.o
dlsym                               /home/demsn702/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o)  (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1)
dlopen                              /home/demsn702/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o)  (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1)
dlerror                             /home/demsn702/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o)  (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to fetchmail

So I added -ldl manually, and the following unresolved symbol remained:
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
interface_init                      fetchmail.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to fetchmail

I noticed that the missing function is only compiled for linux and 
some other system. So I added a copy of the empty function to the source.
Then it compiled...



SSL access problems:

demsn702@sulphur:~> fetchmail --ssl
fetchmail: fetchmail: getaddrinfo("msx","imaps") error: servname not for ai_socktype
IMAP connection to msx.bln1.siemens.de failed: Bad file number
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)

Comments:
1. The error message is very "bit-wise" and not helpful.
2. Does this mean that the host does not support IMAPS, or does it 
   mean that /etc/services does not list IMAPS (which it doesn't)?
3. In the latter case, can fetchmail be convinced to try it though?

If I change socket.c, line 279:
    i = getaddrinfo(host, service, &req, &ai0);
to
    i = getaddrinfo(host, NULL, &req, &ai0);
it says:
IMAP connection to msx failed: Cannot assign requested address
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)

Again, the message is not helpful as it doesn't tell me if something 
went wrong accessing the server (maybe not trying the right port after 
my best-guess modification) or if the server was detected not to 
support IMAPS.



Configuration script problems:
As a last hint, I am listing here my attempt to call the configuration 
script. The problems are obvious:
demsn702@sulphur:~/opt/fetchmail-6.2.9-rc2> ./fetchmailconf
bash: ./fetchmailconf: Permission denied
demsn702@sulphur:~/opt/fetchmail-6.2.9-rc2> ls -l fetchmailconf
-rw-r--r--   1 demsn702 mdd           41 Sep  9 11:41 fetchmailconf
demsn702@sulphur:~/opt/fetchmail-6.2.9-rc2> sh fetchmailconf
fetchmailconf: :: not found
demsn702@sulphur:~/opt/fetchmail-6.2.9-rc2> ./fetchmailconf.py 
/usr/bin/env: No such file or directory
demsn702@sulphur:~/opt/fetchmail-6.2.9-rc2> ls -l /usr/bin/env
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin         5116 Jan  6  2000 /usr/bin/env
demsn702@sulphur:~/opt/fetchmail-6.2.9-rc2> 



I would appreciate if the compilation problems get fixed and also if 
someone could help me with the SSL issues (and please improve error 
feedback...).

Kind regards,
Thomas Woff