Re: [Fetchmail-users] fetchmail 7 fetchmailrc problem

[Dennis P. <da...@be...>]

On 6/1/2022 4:02 PM, Matthias Andree wrote:
> 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
>
Thanks for the reply. Those dumb asterisks were added by the mailer for 
bold. I guess I won't do that again. Anyway, like I said I copy/pasted 
the config directly from the documentation for version 6. I'll try your 
suggestions.