Re: [Fetchmail-users] gmail socket error

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 13.02.21 um 21:28 schrieb Joe Acquisto-j4:
> Trying to regain ability to download gmail to my local cllient.
>
> Getting the following:
>
> --------------------
> fetchmail: 6.4.2-rc3 querying imap.gmail.com (protocol IMAP) at Sat Feb 13 15:17:11 2021: poll started
> Sat Feb 13 15:17:11 EST 2021
> fetchmail: Trying to connect to 172.253.63.108/993...connected.
> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from my...@gm...@imap.gmail.com
> fetchmail: 6.4.2-rc3 querying imap.gmail.com (protocol IMAP) at Sat Feb 13 15:17:21 2021: poll completed
> fetchmail: Merged UID list from imap.gmail.com:
>  <empty>
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> fetchmail: sleeping at Sat Feb 13 15:17:21 2021 for 120 seconds
> ------------------
>
> Part of .fetchmalrc is below:
> ------------------
> # Configguration created Sat Feb  2 12:57:33 2008 by fetchmailconf 1.52 $Revision: 4740 $
> set logfile "/var/log/fetchmail.log"
> set postmaster "ad...@so..."
> set no bouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
> set daemon 120
> . . . .
>
> poll imap.gmail.com with proto IMAP port 993
>
>  user 'my...@gm...' there with password 'sumwerd' is 'x-...@lo...' here folder 'Inbox','Junk' fetchlimit 1 sslproto 'auto' sslcertck
>    preconnect "/bin/date >> /var/log/fetchmail.log"

You've confused fetchmail. You are *not* specifying the option "ssl" so
the port would be 143 for proto IMAP - but then you are overriding the
port to 993.

That by itself won't work, fetchmail will try to query CAPABILITY then
send STARTTLS via plaintext. Port 993 however is SSL-wrapped and talks
SSL right away.

So either you need to erase the "port 993", or you need to specify "ssl"
in addition (in which case you could still omit the port 993 because it
is the default value for proto imap combined with ssl).