Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:14:25 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Patrick O'Reilly <bsd@perimeter.co.za> Cc: FreeBSD Question List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fetchmail Message-ID: <20020823121425.GA7786@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20020823113537.GA5736@submonkey.net> References: <021701c24a8b$7c8a8e80$b50d030a@PATRICK> <20020823113537.GA5736@submonkey.net>
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On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 12:35:37PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 11:57:23AM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote:
> > Since I 'portupgrade'd fetchmail to fetchmail-5.9.13, I am getting the
> > following message on STDERR every time fetchmail runs:
> >
> > fetchmail: Repoll immediately on mailaccount@mailserver.com
> >
> > Has anyone else experienced this? I cannot find any explanation of this
> > change in the man page.
>
> <MeToo />
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
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