Re: [fetchmail-users] RE: Fetchmail error!

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 13/11/05, deven barhate <dev...@gm...> wrote:
> fetchmail: POP3> USER us...@so...
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK User name accepted, password please
> fetchmail: POP3> PASS
> fetchmail: POP3< -ERR Bad login
> fetchmail: Bad login
> fetchmail: Authorization failure on us...@so...
> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Sayonara
> fetchmail: 6.2.0 querying somemailserver.com (protocol POP3) at Sun 13 Nov
> 2005 06:36:18 PM IST: poll completed
>
> Now the thing is I can access the mails through webmail over the internet
> with same USERNAME and PASSWD.
>
> then why fetchmail is not able to fetch the mails?

Have you tried using just "user" (dropping "@somemailserver.com")? 
Are there any special (ie not A-Z, a-z or 0-9) characters in your
password?

Finally, try the latest version of fetchmail, 6.2.0 is old and has a
number of known security issues.  You should either be on 6.2.5.2 or
the latest 6.3.0 release candidate.

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