Re: [Fetchmail-users] The daemon runs (seen in top) but neve tries to connect

[Ian B. <an...@fa...>]

Matthias, hello,

see below

On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 11:47:46PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Ian,
> 
> can you get the logs of a run similar to:
> 
> fetchmail --nosyslog --nodetach -vvv -d600
> 
> That should show something.  Note that if running as root it will grab
> /usr/local/etc/fetchmailrc, all other users will look at
> $HOME/.fetchmailrc.  We should then see where it hangs.
> 
Starting afresh this morning and having made sure that all was as should be, having set for fetchmail user with fetchmailrc in /usr/local/etc
As you can see with a system start fetchmail daemon is running from 11:27:54
But by the time i make a timestamp with an imap disconnect at 11:52:33 it has not yet made a pop3 call to receive mail.


Nov  3 10:52:52 hestia fetchmail[907]: terminated with signal 15
Nov  3 11:26:57 hestia dovecot: dovecot: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1020 uid=0 code=kill)
Nov  3 11:26:57 hestia fetchmail[774]: terminated with signal 15
Nov  3 11:26:57 hestia postfix/postfix-script[1057]: stopping the Postfix mail system
Nov  3 11:26:57 hestia postfix/master[758]: terminating on signal 15
Nov  3 11:27:53 hestia postfix/postfix-script[748]: starting the Postfix mail system
Nov  3 11:27:53 hestia postfix/master[750]: daemon started -- version 2.11.1, configuration /usr/local/etc/postfix
Nov  3 11:27:54 hestia fetchmail[766]: starting fetchmail 6.3.26 daemon
Nov  3 11:27:54 hestia dovecot: Dovecot v1.2.17 starting up
Nov  3 11:27:54 hestia dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /usr/local/etc/passwd.dovecot: Read 1 users
Nov  3 11:27:54 hestia dovecot: auth-worker(default): passwd-file /usr/local/etc/passwd.dovecot: Read 1 users
Nov  3 11:27:55 hestia dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=861
Nov  3 11:27:55 hestia dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=860
Nov  3 11:27:55 hestia dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=864
Nov  3 11:27:55 hestia dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=863
Nov  3 11:27:55 hestia dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=859
Nov  3 11:27:55 hestia dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=862
Nov  3 11:28:53 hestia dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH  1       PLAIN   service=imap    lip=192.168.0.21        rip=192.168.0.15        lport=143       rport=49092       resp=<hidden>
Nov  3 11:28:53 hestia dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(nignog,192.168.0.15): lookup: user=inksi file=/usr/local/etc/passwd.dovecot
Nov  3 11:28:53 hestia dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK   1       user=nignog
Nov  3 11:28:53 hestia dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST       1       862     1
Nov  3 11:28:53 hestia dovecot: auth-worker(default): passwd(nignog,192.168.0.15): lookup
Nov  3 11:28:53 hestia dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 1       inksi   system_groups_user=nignog        uid=1001        gid=1001        home=/home/nignog
Nov  3 11:28:53 hestia dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<nignog>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.15, lip=192.168.0.21
Nov  3 11:28:54 hestia dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=866
Nov  3 11:52:33 hestia dovecot: IMAP(nignog): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=2377/16968

If I run it as su it is woken up but that is all apart from the standard notice 'running as root strongly discouraged'.
then:

root@hestia:/usr/home/nignog # fetchmail --nosyslog --nodetach -vvv -d600
fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.
Scratch list of UIDs: <empty>
fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified.     ****** is this line a clue?  *****
root@hestia:/usr/home/nignog # 


so then the only option is to repeat the command as a user

$ fetchmail --nosyslog --nodetach -vvv -d600
Old UID list from pop3.gormless.co.za: <empty>
Old UID list from pop3.gormless.co.za: <empty>
Old UID list from pop3.gormless.co.za: <empty>
Old UID list from pop3.gormless.co.za: <empty>
Scratch list of UIDs: <empty>
fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.3.26 daemon
fetchmail: 6.3.26 querying pop3.gormless.co.za (protocol POP3) at Mon Nov  3 12:13:43 2014: poll started
Trying to connect to 41.78.28.41/110...connected.
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Dovecot ready.
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3< CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< TOP
fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES
fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING
fetchmail: POP3< AUTH-RESP-CODE
fetchmail: POP3< STLS
fetchmail: POP3< USER
fetchmail: POP3< SASL CRAM-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> AUTH CRAM-MD5
fetchmail: POP3< + PDkxNDkyMTkxNzI3NDk3NjcuMTQxNTAwOTYyNEBlbWFpbC1wcm94eXg+
fetchmail: decoded as <9149219172749767.1415009624@email-proxyx>
fetchmail: POP3> aHlwYXRpYUBmYWJsZXMuY28uemEgOWU5YzVmZWFmNzRiY2I5MjRhYzY2NzkzOGM5YWVjMGQ=
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Logged in.
fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 0
fetchmail: No mail for nignog@mydomain at pop3.gormless.co.za
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Logging out.

and it runs happily thereafter for multiple pops every 10 mins.

Can you see anything there?
Back only tonight.

Ian


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