"Rob MacGregor" <rob_macgregor(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com> writes:
From: Bjorn Wiren <etxbwir(_at_)cbe(_dot_)ericsson(_dot_)se>
[ You might want to consider putting the entire question in the body,
it makes much more sense that way ]
]What's the expected behavior upon auth fail in daemon mode?
A warning mail, then the daemon quitting, from what I remember when I
first started using fetchmail.
Only now I've found it doesn't - it just silently keeps on
trying. Since I couldn't find anything about this in the documentation,
I begin to mistrust my memory (happens more and more ..).
Some time back the default was changed, so that you didn't get a DoS
on your email when one server died.
If you check the list archives and/or the changelog you should find
the details of exactly when. It does now log the details to syslog,
IMHO a better solution.
Thanks Rob. I browsed the NEWS file (AKA for change log?), but didn't
find out when the DoS mail was dropped. It was *introduced* in
4.6.6. Syslogging came already in 4.6.3.
In 5.1.1, an interesting feature appeared: "Tolerate a tunable
constant number of authorization failures before complaining and
wedging". Found nothing on *how* to tune it though - maybe this has
been dropped?
Anyway, could somebody give me a hint on how to get a warning upon
authentication failure? (Please not just "man syslog" - I tried
that.)
In our site, the warning is more or less a must-have, since we use
fetchmail for polling a less frequently used box that has its password
expired every 60 days.
Maybe it's worth spending a few words on this in the documentation too?
TIA
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Björn Wirén