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Re: fetchmail 6.3.1-1 problem
- From: Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>
- To: "David E. Bath" <davidbath at newsguy dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:02:36 -0400
- Subject: Re: fetchmail 6.3.1-1 problem
- References: <20060617161937.GA1348@newsguy.com>
David,
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 11:19:37AM -0500, David E. Bath wrote:
> I recently updated fetchmail 6.3.1-1 from 6.2.5-2. I now get an error
> when it connects to one of my mail servers. Using "fetchamil -v" I
> noticed a difference in the output that indicates the likely problem.
>
> 6.3.1-1 give this message when the connection fails:
>
> fetchmail: 6.3.1 querying mail.********.*** (protocol POP3) at Fri Jun 16 15:05:3
> 1 2006: poll started
> fetchmail: getaddrinfo("mail.********.***","pop3s") error: nodename nor servname
> provided, or not known
> fetchmail: POP3 connection to mail.********.*** failed: Operation not permitted
I was able to workaround the above by adding the following line to
/etc/services:
pop3s 995/tcp #POP3 SSL
Jason
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