Re: [fetchmail-devel] fetchmail socket problem

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

On 10/25/07, aalap shah <aal...@gm...> wrote:
> hi I am using fetchmail  to fetch mails from gmail account but I am facing 2
> problems.

This would be far more appropriate to the -users mailing list.

> The first one is that when i  try to do
> openssl s_client -connect smtp.gmail.com:995 -showcerts
> it shows
>  +OK Gpop ready for requests from 220.224.119.42 c25pf1139902ika
> where in when i saw certain configuration pages it shows that i should get
> something like
> +OK Gpop i16pf3941185wxd ready.
> I dont understand what is this

This is the greeting from the GMail POP service.

> and secondly I tried connecting to pop.gmail.com using fetchmail i got
> somekind of socket error no 2, I also created the certificates and edited
> the .fetchmailrc file . The error it shows is
>
> fetchmail: 6.3.7 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at Thursday 25

Upgrade to 6.3.8.

> October 2007 11:32:29 PM IST: poll started
> Trying to connect to 66.249.91.109/995...connected.
> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from aal...@po...
> fetchmail: 6.3.7 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at Thursday 25
> October 2007 11:33:37 PM IST: poll completed
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 2

Socket errors (as has been discussed many times in the past) relate to
a communications failure with the remote host.

> please help
>
> the strace output after i input my password is

As specified in the FAQ under reporting a bug
(http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3) please provide the
output of:

fetchmail --nosyslog --nodetach -vvv

The content of your .fetchmailrc would also help.

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