Quoting from Gareth Clay's mail on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:00:59PM +0000:
poll mail.csv.warwick.ac.uk
user 'csvgu' there with password '*******' is 'gareth' here
[snip]
fetchmail: IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY
fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 IDLE NAMESPACE MAILBOX-REFERRALS
SCAN SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND
LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS AUTH=LOGIN
^^^^^^^^
fetchmail: IMAP< A0001 OK CAPABILITY completed
[snip]
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Capability list follows:
fetchmail: POP3< TOP
fetchmail: POP3< LOGIN-DELAY 180
fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< STLS
^^^^
fetchmail: POP3< USER
fetchmail: POP3< SASL LOGIN
fetchmail: POP3< .
Your imap/pop3 server claims to support TLS, but probably doesn't! You
can fix this by adding 'auth password' to your config file.
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...
poll mail.csv.warwick.ac.uk
auth password
user 'csvgu' there with password '*******' is 'gareth' here
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Attached is a patch which changes the auth method to password if STLS
fails.
Sunil Shetye.
fetchmail-6.1.2-nostls.patch
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