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[fetchmail]"fetchmail authentication failed" message

2001-08-21 08:51:11
occasionally (when my pop3 server glitches) fetchmail generates a
message like the following:

| Subject: fetchmail authentication failed
|
| Fetchmail could not get mail from foo(_at_)bar(_dot_)com(_dot_)
|
| The attempt to get authorization failed.
| This probably means your password is invalid, but POP3 servers have
| other failure modes that fetchmail cannot distinguish from this
| because they don't send useful error messages on login failure.
|
| --
|                               The Fetchmail Daemon

note that that's the whole message.  no headers other than the
Subject.  in particular, there's no Date header, and so i can't
easily determine when the problem happened.

would it be reasonable to include a Date header?
(i could probably cobble up a patch...)

m.


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