fetchmail under fc2t2

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr  3, 2004, Aleksander Demko <ademko at shaw.ca> wrote:

> fetchmail doesn't work for me. In particular, strace shows an
> infinite connect-read-disconnect loop with my pop3 server.

Do you by any chance have a `default auth ssh' entry?  I used to have
one, and this apparently causes the `pass' entry for (pop3?) servers
to be ignored.  I thought this was quite reasonable, so I just added
`auth password' to the entries that needed password authentication and
it worked fine.

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