Bjoern Voigt <bjoern(_at_)cs(_dot_)tu-berlin(_dot_)de>:
Hello Fetchmail-Friends,
There is probably a bug in Fetchmail's handling of exit codes. I
tested fetchmail-5.9.0 (and some earlier versions) with POP3/SSL and
IMAP/SSL. In this case I used a wrong password, but also some internal
problems of my email provider show the same situation:
$ fetchmail -f .fetchmailrc-smtp-b4-smtp
fetchmail: imap.web.de key fingerprint:
9D:A2:24:DB:25:AE:D1:27:A9:E8:71:C8:C3:33:CE:52
fetchmail: Authorization failure on <SOME-USER>@imap.web.de
fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)
$ echo $?
0
$
But the exit code should be 2 (from manual page):
3 The user authentication step failed. This usually
means that a bad user-id, password, or APOP id was
specified. Or it may mean that you tried to run
fetchmail under circumstances where it did not have
standard input attached to a terminal and could not
prompt for a missing password.
I need correct exit codes for a "POP3/IMAP before
SMTP"-authentication.
Due to a weakness in POP3, server errors at startup look like authentication
errors to fetchmail. The fix is to switch to IMAP.
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