Re: [Fetchmail-users] Fetchmail on new Devuan Beowulf fails where old version works.

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

Erik,

you wrote:
> My ancient debian host's fetchmail works fine with the ISP's
> mailserver,  but fetchmail 6.4.0.beta4 on beowulf is ignoring the mail
> server's capability  response, instead asking for STLS, which fails.

Ouch. I should check that and possibly document better.

I think it still desires TLS because...

>  poll mail.internode.on.net with proto POP3 
>         user 'dvalin' there is 'erik' here options fetchall
> sslcertck 
>  but deleting "sslcertck" made no difference. 

...the default value for sslcertck changed between fetchmail 6.3 and
6.4, to do the right thing.

There are two ways out here for you:

1. The good one is adding "ssl". That makes fetchmail connect to port
995 and talk TLS right away (SSL-wrapped or TLS-wrapped mode) and is
what I'd recommend.

2. The bad one, and I shall clearly discourage that, is adding
nosslcertck (this defeats man-in-the-middle eavesdropping protection).

> In about 30 years of fetchmail use, I've completely forgotten what it
> is tohave an email fetch issue. This is quite novel.

Thanks for the honors for ESR, but fetchmail is only 25 years old and
even with popclient it's not sure we get to 30. ;-)

Regards,
Matthias