Hello sirs,
Here is a problem(not bug) while using fetchmail release
5.1.2+NLS. While I am trying to retrieve mails from THIS
PARTICULAR REMOTE MAILBOX, its frequently reporting as
'invalid username/password'. However, i can able to access
the same mailbox using any http client (ie..
netscape,ie,etc)..
Is it possible to fix it???
For your kind reference, here is the brief detail:
Here is the output of `fetchmail -V` with no other options:
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$ fetchmail V
This is fetchmail release 5.1.2+NLS
Linux Larry 2.2.16 #9 Mon Feb 26 17:31:52 IST 2001 i686 unknown
Taking options from command line and /home/bhuvan/.fetchmailrc
Idfile is /home/bhuvan/.fetchids
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to bhuvan.
Options for retrieving from bhuvanbk(_at_)pop(_dot_)mail(_dot_)yahoo(_dot_)com:
True name of server is pop.mail.yahoo.com.
Password will be prompted for.
Protocol is POP3.
Server nonresponse timeout is 180 seconds.
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 disabled (mimedecode off).
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 response given by `fetchmail -av`
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$ fetchmail -av
Enter password for bhuvanbk(_at_)pop(_dot_)mail(_dot_)yahoo(_dot_)com:
fetchmail: 5.1.2 querying pop.mail.yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at Sat, 16 Jun
2001 18:10:29 +0530 (IST)
fetchmail: POP3< +OK hello from popgate
fetchmail: POP3> USER bhuvanbk
fetchmail: POP3< +OK password required.
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< -ERR invalid user/password.
fetchmail: invalid user/password.
fetchmail: Authorization failure on
bhuvanbk(_at_)pop(_dot_)mail(_dot_)yahoo(_dot_)com
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: authorization error while fetching from pop.mail.yahoo.com
fetchmail: Query status=3
fetchmail: normal termination, status 3
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Here is the contents of my .fetchmailrc(-rw-------)
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$ cat .fetchmailrc
poll pop.mail.yahoo.com protocol POP3 timeout 180
username bhuvanbk, is bhuvan here
no keep
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