Hi Norm,
In your /root/.fetchmailrc you can add Gmail with this at the end,
changing `foobar':
skip gmail via pop.gmail.com proto imap
user "Normanzalmonshapiro@Gmail.com" is norm
password "foobar" ssl
...
fetchmail -f /root/.fetchmailrc -a gmail
When I do that I get:
fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.
Enter password for root@gmail:
fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of gmail (gmail):
Name or service not known
That means it didn't see that new `skip gmail' entry that you just added
to /root/.fetchmailrc and that's odd because you told fetchmail to use
that configuration file with the `-f /root/.fetchmailrc' I gave above.
Without seeing the `skip gmail', fetchmail thinks the gmail you've given
is a local host to contact and thus asks for the password for your
username, root, at that hostname: root@gmail.
So double-check that you added that `skip gmail' paragraph correctly,
including not making it `skip Gmail' with a capital G. And that
`-f /root/.fetchmailrc' was passed to fetchmail.
fetchmail will show its understanding of a configuration file entry with
-V. This confirms it is seeing it. It doesn't fetch any mail when
doing this.
fetchmail -f /root/.fetchmailrc -V gmail
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Cheers, Ralph.