From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 5:25: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2930037B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 05:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from perimeter.co.za (obelix.perimeter.co.za [209.212.102.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F6F43E8A for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 05:24:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Received: from PATRICK (gateway.mip.co.za [209.212.102.245]) (AUTH: LOGIN bsd@perimeter.co.za) by perimeter.co.za with esmtp; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:24:46 +0200 Message-ID: <046c01c24aa0$49937ae0$b50d030a@PATRICK> From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "Ceri Davies" Cc: "FreeBSD Question List" References: <021701c24a8b$7c8a8e80$b50d030a@PATRICK> <20020823113537.GA5736@submonkey.net> <20020823121425.GA7786@submonkey.net> Subject: Re: Fetchmail Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:26:18 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Ceri Davies" > > Initial investigation appears to reveal that this happens when your POP server > doesn't allow CAPA to be issued without authentication, so fetchmail has to > repoll ( or reconnect to ) the server to issue the authentication. > > See the comment from pop3.c: > > /* > * CAPA command may return a list including available > * authentication mechanisms. if it doesn't, no harm done, we > * just fall back to a plain login. Note that this code > * latches the server's authentication type, so that in daemon mode > * the CAPA check only needs to be done once at start of run. > * > * If CAPA fails, then force the authentication method to PASSORD > * and repoll immediately. > * > * These authentication methods are blessed by RFC1734, > * describing the POP3 AUTHentication command. > */ > > > PS_REPOLL is flagged as for internal use, so whether the fact that this > error is being shown to us as users is a bug or not is a question for > Eric or fetchmail-friends. > > Ceri OK. If I understand the thrust of this correctly it means that I should not lose any sleep about this message - it is really just a warning of sorts... ? Thanks Ceri. Regards, Patrick O'Reilly. ___ _ __ / _ )__ __ (_)_ __ ___ _/ /____ __ / __/ -_) _) / ~ ) -_), ,-/ -_) _) /_/ \__/_//_/_/~/_/\__/ \__/\__/_/ http://www.perimeter.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message