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Re: [fetchmail] @ symbol in username

2002-12-18 04:30:36
Robert MacLean wrote:


Error: fetchmail: Authorization failure on
robert(_at_)idws(_dot_)com@mail.idws.com
My only idea is the @ symbol in the username is causing a problem.

You could have checked this with "fetchmail -N -v mail.idws.com",
but

I tried "fetchmail -N -v -u robert(_at_)idws(_dot_)com mail.idws.com" and that
worked fine.
If I try "fetchmail -N -f /root/.fetchmailrc" then i still get the
error. Could it be that the @ symbol is process differently when in
the config file?

Also what does -N do?

from my observation a @ is left alone. In general, you can
surrounded
critical string with quotation marks " or escape critical characters
with backslashes \.

Tried that already, and no go.


And it's most likely that your provider supports substitions for the
@
(e.g. %, !, &). If he would not, his customers using (at least older
versions of) Netscape Communicator would get no mail (it strips @
after
the username).

Netscape translates % into @ by itself, has nothing to do with the
host (or atleast this is what i've been told). My provider has no
alternatives.