Re: [Fetchmail-users] Password length restriction

[Eike L. <zp...@gm...>]

On Wednesday, 15 July 2020 12:32:49 -04 Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 15.07.20 um 16:42 schrieb Zsolt Barat:
> > I'm using following fetchmail version:
> >
> > 6.3.26+POP2+GSS+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS+KRB5
>
> 6.3.X is a museum piece from 2013 and unsupported on this list, and I
> don't care to look back to what it might have done for such questions.
>
> Password buffers in 6.4.X are allocated dynamically, and there may be
> undocumented limitations on your mail service provider's (MSP's) end.
> 30 certainly does not seem too long to me, but might be for your MSP.
>
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If you don't mind my AOL-post ...
There are some distributions which are not including any recent
fetchmail version.
I really don't get it why e.g. openSuse comes with 6.3.26 fetchmail.
If mayor producers of Linux Distros are going on with this practice
questions like the one of the OP are bound to appear again and again.
It seems to be a widely common assumption that the latest distro comes
with the latest ports - not at all, not at all.
Not good.
Not long ago OpenBsd e.g. was still with 6.3.xx when 6.4.xx was already
available upstream. Now OpenBSD 6.7 Release comes with 6.4.3.
At least on OpenBSD compiling the latest upstream version fo fetchmail
is straight forward and easy.
On Linux I don't know but would be worth a try.
Anyway, updating to the latest upstream version before asking for help,
is always good practice.

Anyway I admire your patience giving a helpful answer despite the OP's
question based on outdated software.
All the best to y'all

--
Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE
Asuncion / Paraguay

I know what it feels like to be misunderstood. I know what it feels
like to be misjudged because of prejudice. So, please would you stop to
teach me that lesson?
Or maybe by posting my 2 cents I asked for it ...