Re: [Fetchmail-users] Migrating from 6.3.24 to 6.4.38

[Andrew C A. <fet...@ai...>]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2025, Dennis Putnam via Fetchmail-users wrote:

> I have fetchmail (6.3.24) running on CentOS 7 and am moving it to Ubuntu 
> fetchmail (6.4.38). I thought the move would be pretty much seamless but was 
> wrong. Apparently there are differences in the fetchmailrc file that I am not 
> understanding. I am using it for gmail. Here is a sanitized portion of my 
> fetchmailrc:
>
> *set logfile "/var/log/maillog"
> set postmaster "mailman"
> set bouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
> defaults:
>         timeout 240
> poll pop.gmail.com
>         proto POP3
>         user "uuu...@gm..."
>         is uuuuuuuuu
>         password 'kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkr'
>         preconnect "echo `date '+%b %d %H:%M:%S'` uuuuuuuuu"
>         ssl
>         nokeep
>         fetchall

> Trying to connect to 127.0.0.1/25...connected.
>
> *At this point it seems to hang and does not proceed to the next mailbox.
> Can someone help me fix my fetchmailrc? TIA.

I think (but am not sure) that the problem may be with your local mail
server (MTA - probably postfix or exim) rather than fetchmail.
I would look in the logs for that.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
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