Re: [fetchmail-users] SMTP connect error with fetchmail under Cygwin

[Kyle Contreras-B. <kyl...@gm...>]

On 5/12/07, Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> wrote:
>
> First of all, is your fetchmail current? Should be 6.3.8, but 6.3.6
> should also work somewhat.
>
> Next, do you have procmail installed?
>
> Both can be fixed with the Cygwin setup.exe.
>
> Third, if you originally injected into Exim or some such, be sure to
> start that daemon at boot time (requires some NT-ish operating system
> AFAICS, NT, Win2K, XP or Vi$ta, details are in Jason Tishler's
> cygwin-readme file that should be on your system).


Thanks for the reply!

Fetchmail appears to be current, and procmail is installed (they're versions
6.3.8 and 3.22, respectively, according to setup.exe).

I did indeed need to get exim running, it seems (thanks!) - I ran
exim-config to get the daemon going and when I ran fetchmail, instead of
giving "connection to localhost failed" it happily connected. However, it's
still having certificate verification errors (I don't know if that's a big
issue or not) and terminating with a socket error. This is what it's showing
at the end:

fetchmail: socket error while fetching from so...@gm...@pop.gmail.com
fetchmail: 6.3.8 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at <date>: poll
completed
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: normal termination, status 2

It's been getting stuck at the same message, which appears to be fairly
large (14003782 octets), so I'm starting to wonder if there isn't some issue
there. Before it hits that message, it's giving this:

649 messages (292 seen) for so...@gm... at pop.gmail.com (21915850
octets).
skipping message so...@gm...@pop.gmail.com:1 not flushed
skipping message so...@gm...@pop.gmail.com:2 not flushed
...
skipping message so...@gm...@pop.gmail.com:291 not flushed
skipping message so...@gm...@pop.gmail.com:292 not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> LIST 293
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 293 14003782
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 293
fetchmail: POP3< +OK message follows
reading message so...@gm...@pop.gmail.com:293 of 649 (14003782 octets)

Trying to connect to 127.0.0.1/25...connected.
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 <hostname> ESMTP Exim 4.66 Sat, 12 May 2007 14:04:08
-0700
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO <hostname>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-<hostname> Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE 52428800
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<so...@gm...> SIZE=14003782
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 OK
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<username@hostname>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Accepted
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
#<massive string of asterisks, interrupted by periods>

Any further thoughts? Thanks again so much.
Kyle