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Re: [fetchmail]The 5.9.2 release of fetchmail is available

2001-09-28 05:00:41
From: "Larry W. Virden" <lvirden(_at_)cas(_dot_)org>


I was rather surprised to see a variety of problems when trying the new
fetchmail.

Platform: SPARC Solaris 8
Sun C compiler.

The code compiled, built, and installed.  However when I tried my normal

$ cat ~/.fetchmailrc
poll pop.mail.yahoo.com username lvirden is lvirden here
 and wants mda "/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris8/lib/mailagent/filter";

$ fetchmail -a pop.mail.yahoo.com -u lvirden -p POP3

I got problems with fetchmail asking for a password for lwv26(_at_)-u .  I 
figured
out that for some reason -u was no longer being recognized, so then I tried

$ fetchmail -a pop.mail.yahoo.com -p POP3

and got a prompt for a password for lwv26(_at_)-p ... so I dropped the -a flag

$ fetchmail -p POP3

was prompted for my password, and found that even then, fetchmail just skips
the messages sitting in my yahoo mailbox.  Here's what the run says:

fetchmail -p POP3 -L /tmp/logging
Enter password for lvirden(_at_)pop(_dot_)mail(_dot_)yahoo(_dot_)com: 
fetchmail: 5.9.2 querying pop.mail.yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at Thu Sep 27 
10:23:30 2001: poll started
fetchmail: 5 messages (5 seen) for lvirden at pop.vip.sc5.yahoo.com (48241 
octets).
fetchmail: skipping message 
lvirden(_at_)pop(_dot_)vip(_dot_)sc5(_dot_)yahoo(_dot_)com:1 (3716 octets) 
not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message 
lvirden(_at_)pop(_dot_)vip(_dot_)sc5(_dot_)yahoo(_dot_)com:2 (3056 octets) 
not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message 
lvirden(_at_)pop(_dot_)vip(_dot_)sc5(_dot_)yahoo(_dot_)com:3 (26873 octets) 
not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message 
lvirden(_at_)pop(_dot_)vip(_dot_)sc5(_dot_)yahoo(_dot_)com:4 (6217 octets) 
not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message 
lvirden(_at_)pop(_dot_)vip(_dot_)sc5(_dot_)yahoo(_dot_)com:5 (8379 octets) 
not flushed
fetchmail: 5.9.2 querying pop.mail.yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at Thu Sep 27 
10:23:38 2001: poll completed

with nothing in the log file.

Anyone know what new thing I have to do to get things to work?


Turns out that when I roll back to 5.9.0, and can use my original command
line options, fetchmail can retrieve the messages.  However, even with the
older fetchmail versions, if I only specify the -p flag, I get the
'skipping message' behavior.

I unfortunately have no idea what is going wrong here and would appreciate
any help anyone can provide.
-- 
Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
Larry W. Virden <mailto:lvirden(_at_)cas(_dot_)org> <URL: 
http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/>
Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should 
be construed as representing my employer's opinions.
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