Bjoern Voigt <bjoern(_at_)cs(_dot_)tu-berlin(_dot_)de>:
The authentication errors came from the German Mail Provider WEB.DE
(because of database administration work). But to simulate this later,
I used a wrong password for my account. I tried this with POP3 over
SSL and IMAP over SSL. Because IMAP authentication errors are also not
reported with an exit code != 0, using IMAP isn't a solution.
That's probably true. You're not likely to get a useful return code of
any kind if there is more than one site in your .fetchmailrc file. But
the IMAP client code can unambiguously report an authentication-failure
condition.
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