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From: Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with Fetchmail
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:53:09
Message-Id: 3KOZ6OSC.V5UBLJAZ.7G6RR5CL@UQDBUKUB.DC2WWF6D.PDV22FFS
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with Fetchmail by Philip Webb
1 On 2020.03.03 02:54, Philip Webb wrote:
2 > 191211 Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
3 > > On 12/10/19 11:03 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
4 > >> A few days ago, I updated Fetchmail to the latest stable 6.4.1 .
5 > >> Immediately, it stopped fetching mail from one of my mail
6 > forwarders ;
7 > >> the other one still worked, as I found by test-mailing to myself.
8 > >> When I reverted to 6.3.26-r4 , everything worked properly again.
9 > > I had the same problem after updating to 6.4 and managed to fix it
10 > > by adding the "sslproto ''" option to each poll section.
11 > > This immediately made things work again,
12 > > both when piping through POPFile and fetching from GMail.
13 > > See the 6.4.x man page for changes regarding the --sslproto option.
14 >
15 > Thanks again, if I didn't thank you before.
16 > I simply reverted, left it that way & forgot all about it
17 > till I noticed that Fetchmail needs Python-2 only when using 'tk'.
18 > Wanting to eliminate Py-2 ASAP, I emerged Fetchmail 6.4.1
19 > & ran into the same problem. Eventually, I also noticed
20 > that 'sslproto' needs an argument (red face) & added the '' .
21 > Now it's fetching mail again (big smile).
22 >
23 > However, my ISP is now sending me an e-mail every 5 min ,
24 > after Fetchmail checks for mail :
25 >
26 > From: "(Cron Daemon)" <purslow@***>
27 > To: purslow@***
28 > Subject: Cron <purslow@localhost> test -e /var/run/dhcpcd.pid &&
29 > /usr/bin/fetchmail -s 2> /dev/null
30 > fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
31 >
32 > Can anyone tell me how to suppress these msgs ?
33
34 Are you sure the message is coming from your ISP, and not locally
35 generated, perhaps by cron?
36
37 Jack

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