Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:26:18 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za> To: "Ceri Davies" <setantae@submonkey.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Question List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fetchmail Message-ID: <046c01c24aa0$49937ae0$b50d030a@PATRICK> References: <021701c24a8b$7c8a8e80$b50d030a@PATRICK> <20020823113537.GA5736@submonkey.net> <20020823121425.GA7786@submonkey.net>
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From: "Ceri Davies" <setantae@submonkey.net>
>
> 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.
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