Re: [Fetchmail-users] Earthlink changed its incoming server names

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

Am 26.05.21 um 20:29 schrieb Matthias Andree:
> Michael,
>
> please do provide logs from a "fetchmail -Nvvd0" run, the authorization
> error mailed to you by the daemon is pretty generic, the verbose log may
> indeed provide more details.
> Also if possible don't post HTML and/or with a mailer that converts the
> server names to would-be links...
>
I've received Michael's logs off-list, and some remarks:

- it is really the username/password combination that gets refused

- it would however seem that with a mindspring.com address the earthlink
server should be used, but a mindspring server, and the network
configuration and also server identifications are different, see
https://help.earthlink.net/portal/en/kb/articles/email-server-settings -
so try that first.

And more observations:

- pop.earthlink.net seems to be pretty antediluvian with respect to
protecting passwords over the wire. No SSL service, no STLS, only APOP
as a very mild means to mitigate password theft.

- fetchmail 6.3.26 is eight years old. Was this shipped by Synology or
is that third-party?
We have 6.4.19... and it shows fetchmail running as root, which is not
how it should be.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Matthias