What OS are you using and what version of Fetchmail? If you don't provide
information nobody can help you...
Sorry.
I am using rh6.1 and fetchmail 5.1.0
Here is the fetchmail -V response:
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This is fetchmail release 5.1.0
Linux linuxp133.ne.mediaone.net 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:25:54 EDT
1999 i586 unknown
Taking options from command line and /root/.fetchmailrc
Poll interval is 600 seconds
Idfile is /root/.fetchids
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to postmaster.
Options for retrieving from rsdavis(_at_)pop(_dot_)ne(_dot_)mediaone(_dot_)net:
True name of server is pop.ne.mediaone.net.
Protocol is POP3.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush
off).
Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits
off).
MIME decoding is enabled (mimedecode on).
Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default)
Recognized listener spam block responses are: 571 550 501 554
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
No UIDs saved from this host.
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Here is the .fetchmailrc
set daemon 600
poll pop.ne.mediaone.net protocol pop3 username "xxxxxx" password
"xxxxxx" is xxx
thanks
bob
Rob MacGregor wrote:
From: Robert Davis <bob(_at_)rsdavis(_dot_)ne(_dot_)mediaone(_dot_)net>
I have fetchmail running as a daemon and it dies every once and
a while with the error message:
unable to authenticate user ... probably password is incorrect
I dont mind it failing to login in once in a while but why does the daemon
stop running?
What OS are you using and what version of Fetchmail? If you don't provide
information nobody can help you...
Rob
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