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Sometimes your ISP may have a misconfiguration and your fetchmail can get this error:

Sometimes your ISP's Mail Server may have a misconfiguration and your fetchmail can get this error:

  Jan 12 06:45:32 smesmb fetchmail[4260]: POP3< .

  Jan 12 06:45:32 smesmb fetchmail[4260]: POP3< .

the ISP mail server, during tha authentication phase, shows as available for fetchmail a secure connection (even if this connection is NOT available as a secure one for that user);

the ISP mail server, during tha authentication phase, shows as available for fetchmail a secure connection (even if this connection is NOT available as a secure one for that user);

fetchmail then tries to authenticate with TLS and the connection is refused; the solution is to force fetchmail to avoid using secure protocols (command line switch --sslproto ' ')

fetchmail then tries to authenticate with TLS and the connection is refused; the solution is to force fetchmail to avoid using secure protocols (command line switch --sslproto ' ' )

Copy the file:

Copy the file:

Then with your favourite editor find the following lines in 90fetchmail:

Then, with your favourite editor, open 90fetchmail and find the following lines:

  # FetchMails service configuration

  # FetchMails service configuration

               $staticvalue .= "set bouncemail\nset properties \"\"\n" ;

               $staticvalue .= "set bouncemail\nset properties \"\"\n" ;

and modify the following line:

you must modify the following line:

  my $staticvalue  = "/usr/bin/fetchmail $mdbg --sslproto '''' --fetchmailrc - <<EOF\n" ;

  my $staticvalue  = "/usr/bin/fetchmail $mdbg --sslproto ' ' --fetchmailrc - <<EOF\n" ;

                              

                              

adding the --slproto '''' switch.

adding the --sslproto ' ' switch (this is like saying sslproto none).

Note that '''' is not " but a double ' (this is like saying sslproto none)

{{Note box|Note that ' ' is not " but a double ' without space between ' and ' }}

Complete with:

Complete with:

expand-template /etc/fetchmail

expand-template /etc/fetchmail