Re: [Fetchmail-users] fetchmail 7 fetchmailrc problem

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

Am 01.06.22 um 19:03 schrieb Dennis Putnam:
> I've installed fetchmail 7 and since I am not able to find
> configuration documentation, I am using the fetchmail 6 patch
> instructions. I've created the following simple fetchmailrc file
> (sanitized):
>
> *poll imap.gmail.com protocol imap**
> **  auth oauthbearer username "my...@gm..."**
> **  passwordfile "/opt/fetchmail7/cron.oauth2"**
> **  is cufsalumni-leave here ssl sslcertck sslproto tlsl*
>
> When I run fetchmail I get this error:
>
> *fetchmail:/opt/fetchmail7/.fetchmailrc:2: syntax error at oauthbearer*
>
> Since it looks correct according to the documentation, either the
> documentation does not apply to 7 or I am missing something. Please
> help: TIA.

Dennis,

adding markup (stars) by you or your mailer implicitly is not helpful,
and I wonder if you copied and pasted that, or retyped it.

At any rate, "syntax error at" is not a format that the current Git
version of fetchmail 7 would report. Update your Git checkout (git pull
should do it), rebuild, retry, and before you do that:

Also note that on top of all that, the last line is wrong, there is no
sslproto (I'll capitalize it so you see it) TLSL (be sure to reconfigure
your computer to use display fonts that actually let you tell the
difference between |1lI),
and if you hadn't mistyped, you would have forced fetchmail to talk only
TLS v1.0 with Google, while they offer TLS v1.3 and nothing older than
v1.2 should be used any more.

You should also receive a "WARNING: ssl is obsolescent. Please use
sslmode wrapped instead. at ssl" in fetchmail 7, but ssl will work if
you want to fiddle around with patched fetchmail 6 and fetchmail 7 -
just be sure not to lose track of what you installed.

HTH