Fetchmail Nolonger Fetches Mail from Google

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Sun Oct 1 20:03:05 UTC 2006


Ric Moore wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 13:05 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 14:42 -0400, Bob Chiodini wrote:
>>     
>>> Sorry about the possibly off-topic post:
>>>
>>> As of Thu 28 Sep 2006 11:47:56 PM EDT, I can no longer fetch mail from
>>> pop.gmail.com.  Fetchmail produces the following:
>>>       
>> That's not it.  Google didn't verify your username.  It sure looks like
>> they're automatically adding the "@gmail.com" bit, so you're getting
>> a double domain.  Try changing fetchmail's username to JUST "bchiodini"
>> and see if that works.
>>     
>
> You can substitute googlemail for gmail in your send-receive setups when
> gmail goes bananas on you. (pop.googlemail.com and
> smtp.googlemail.com:465) That worked for me. No more problems. Ric
>   
Thanks for the suggestions.

I tried without the "@gmail.com", no luck.

It did start working at Fri 29 Sep 2006 06:17:53 PM EDT.  No explanation.

Ric, I'll keep your ideas in case it happens again.

Bob...




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