[fetchmail]Re: SSL authentication problems with Gmail

[Sebastian Tennant]

For the sake of completness, I'll post this here too.  Typical that
the problem should be solved immediately *after* I take the trouble to
resubscribe to the new list!

Rob MacGregor <rob.macgregor@gmail.com> wrote:

>>   fetchmail[4584]: starting fetchmail 6.3.1 daemon
>>   fetchmail[4584]: 6.3.1 querying pop.googlemail.com (protocol POP3) at Wed Jan  4 11:47:17 2006: poll started
>>   fetchmail[4584]: Issuer Organization: Thawte Consulting cc
>>   fetchmail[4584]: Issuer CommonName: Thawte Premium Server CA
>>   fetchmail[4584]: Server CommonName: pop.googlemail.com
>>   fetchmail[4584]: pop.googlemail.com key fingerprint: 46:8B:6C:F4:3E:4C:56:29:83:54:2C:37:42:F1:67:80
>>   fetchmail[4584]: 6.3.1 querying pop.googlemail.com (protocol POP3) at Wed Jan  4 11:47:18 2006: poll completed
>>   fetchmail[4584]: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
>>   fetchmail[4584]: sleeping at Wed Jan  4 11:47:18 2006
>
> Looks like it never talks to the POP server.  Can you drop the "port
> 995" and "sslcertck" options from your fetchmailrc and see what you
> get.

Removed these lines and it works.  Thanks to everyone who helped.

> I'll stick my neck out and say that it's likely a local config or
> compilation error.  I had zero trouble getting fetchmail to pull my
> mail from GMail with the following fetchmailrc:
>
> poll pop.gmail.com
>         proto pop3
>         username "ME<AT>gmail.com"
>         password "PASS"
>         ssl

sdt