Re: [fetchmail-devel] fetchmail socket problem

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

Keep the traffic on the list, and next time use the -users list.

On 10/26/07, Aalap Shah <aal...@gm...> wrote:
> hi, as u requested the output of
>  fetchmail --nosyslog --nodetach -vvv
> is
>
> darshak@darshak-desktop:~$ fetchmail --nosyslog --nodetach -vvv
> Enter password for aal...@po...:
> fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.3.7 daemon

As I said, upgrade to 6.3.8

> fetchmail: 6.3.7 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at Friday 26
> October 2007 01:50:48 PM IST: poll started
> Trying to connect to 66.249.91.109/110...connection failed.
> fetchmail: connection to pop.gmail.com:pop3 [66.249.91.109/110] failed:
> Connection timed out.

That'll never work - GMail provides POP3S, not POP3:

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287

<---SNIP--->
> it hangs after this i waited for 10  minutes but no outcome
> and the contents of my .fetchmailrc file is
>
> # Configuration created Thu Oct 25 01:31:45 2007 by fetchmailconf 1.52
> $Revision: 4740 $
> set postmaster "darshak-desktop"
> set bouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
> set daemon 600
> poll pop.gmail.com with proto pop3 and options no dns
>         user 'aalap.shh' is 'darshak-desktop'

Add "ssl" to the last line.

-- 
                 Please keep list traffic on the list.

Rob MacGregor
      Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
        doesn't become a monster.                  Friedrich Nietzsche