I run fetchmail in daemon mode to grap my email every five minutes. I've
been doing this for a few years now without many problems. I use the
plugin feature to have fetchmail ssh to a server at the ISP that hosts my
email. From there it runs imapd to connect to their mail server, which
isn't the same machine. The version of imapd I run through ssh is very
old. The version they run on their mail server is also old -- as a
side note they don't maintain IMAP anymore, because they really don't want
customers using it.
Last night I upgraded my desktop from Red Hat 9.0 to Fedora Core 2. I had
been running fetchmail from an RPM i got from Eric's website. I don't
know exactly which version it was, but it was at least 6.2. The version
that came with Fedora was 6.2.5 (it may have been updated when I ran
up2date the first time).
In any case, version 6.2.5 doesn't get along with the IMAP server I am
using. I downgraded to 6.2.0 and it works fine. I also tried version
6.2.4 and it worked. All of these were installed from RPMs I got from
Eric's website. I checked the last couple monthly archives of this list
and didn't see any mention of this problem, so I thought I would send it
in.
I've included debug output from fetchmail below. The problem is that
fetchmail never downloads any messages. The mechanism for finding new
messages seems to be broken with my setup. I noticed in the NEWS file
that this is something that was worked on in version 6.2.5. Here's
the output:
fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying mail.datasync.com (protocol IMAP) at Sun, 27 Jun
2004 13:16:48 -0500 (CDT): poll started
fetchmail: running ssh shell.datasync.com /usr/sbin/imapd (host
mail.datasync.com service imap)
Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding.
fetchmail: IMAP< * PREAUTH shell.datasync.com IMAP2bis Service 7.8(100) at
Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:16:52 -0500 (CDT)
fetchmail: IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY
fetchmail: IMAP< A0001 BAD Command unrecognized: CAPABILITY
fetchmail: Protocol identified as IMAP2 or IMAP2BIS
fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder
fetchmail: IMAP> A0002 SELECT "INBOX"
fetchmail: IMAP< * 1 EXISTS
fetchmail: IMAP< * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen)
fetchmail: IMAP< * 1 RECENT
fetchmail: IMAP< A0002 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
fetchmail: 1 messages waiting after first poll
fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 SEARCH UNSEEN NOT DELETED
fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 NO SEARCH failed: Unknown search criterion: NOT
1 message (1 seen) for dirtymac at mail.datasync.com.
skipping message dirtymac(_at_)mail(_dot_)datasync(_dot_)com:1 not flushed
fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 LOGOUT
fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE shell.datasync.com IMAP2bis server terminating
connection
fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 OK LOGOUT completed
fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying mail.datasync.com (protocol IMAP) at Sun, 27 Jun
2004 13:16:51 -0500 (CDT): poll completed
fetchmail: not swapping UID lists, no UIDs seen this query
fetchmail: Query status=1 (NOMAIL)
fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.
fetchmail: normal termination, status 1
fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.
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Will