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[Fetchmail-users] Earthlink changed its incoming server names
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From: Michael B. <mbu...@mi...> - 2021-05-26 18:10:15
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Hi, This isn’t a bug report but a configuration question: I’m using fetchmail on a Synology DSM server running DSM 6.2.3. My email address is mbu...@Mi... <mailto:mbu...@Mi...> My old fetchmailrc file, below, worked until Earthlink changed their server locations: # Edit carefully, see the fetchmail(1) manual page, section "THE RUN CONTROL FILE". poll pop.mindspring.com <http://pop.mindspring.com/> proto pop3 user "mburgoon" password “*", is "mbu...@mb... <mailto:mbu...@mb...>” here recently Earthlink disabled the pop.mindspring.com <http://pop.mindspring.com/> domain and made me change to pop.earthlink.net <http://pop.earthlink.net/>, I changed my fetchmailrc file to the following below with the error messages I received: # Edit carefully, see the fetchmail(1) manual page, section "THE RUN CONTROL FILE". poll pop.earthlink.net <http://pop.earthlink.net/> proto pop3 user "mburgoon" password “*", is "mbu...@mb... <mailto:mbu...@mb...>” here Error from fetcmail: Fetchmail could not get mail from mbu...@po... <mailto:mbu...@po...>. The attempt to get authorization failed. This probably means your password is invalid, but some servers have other failure modes that fetchmail cannot distinguish from this because they don't send useful error messages on login failure. The fetchmail daemon will continue running and attempt to connect at each cycle. No future notifications will be sent until service is restored. -- The Fetchmail Daemon So I tried the following: # Edit carefully, see the fetchmail(1) manual page, section "THE RUN CONTROL FILE". poll pop.earthlink.net <http://pop.earthlink.net/> proto pop3 user “mbu...@mi... <mailto:mbu...@mi...>" password “*", is "mbu...@mb... <mailto:mbu...@mb...>” here Error from fetchmail: Fetchmail could not get mail from mbu...@po... <mailto:mbu...@po...>. The attempt to get authorization failed. This probably means your password is invalid, but some servers have other failure modes that fetchmail cannot distinguish from this because they don't send useful error messages on login failure. The fetchmail daemon will continue running and attempt to connect at each cycle. No future notifications will be sent until service is restored. -- The Fetchmail Daemon I tried one more time with the following: # Edit carefully, see the fetchmail(1) manual page, section "THE RUN CONTROL FILE". poll ppop.earthlink.net <http://ppop.earthlink.net/> proto pop3 localdomains mindspring.com <http://mindspring.com/> user "mburgoon" password “*", is "mbu...@mb... <mailto:mbu...@mb...>” here and got the following error from fetchmail: Fetchmail could not get mail from mbu...@po... <mailto:mbu...@po...>. The attempt to get authorization failed. This probably means your password is invalid, but some servers have other failure modes that fetchmail cannot distinguish from this because they don't send useful error messages on login failure. The fetchmail daemon will continue running and attempt to connect at each cycle. No future notifications will be sent until service is restored. -- The Fetchmail Daemon I can send the log file, but it just says pretty much the same thing. I don’t know how to tell pop.earthlink.net <http://pop.earthlink.net/> that it should be looking for mbu...@mi... <mailto:mbu...@mi...>. Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong? I’m sure its a simple configuration parameter, but I can’t find it. Thanks! Mike Burgoon mbu...@Mi... <mailto:mbu...@Mi...> |
