Re: [Nolug] Fetchmail problem

From: Jeremiah T. Gray <jtgray79_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:41:24 -0700
Message-Id: <CB216FB0-13B5-4EE5-83BC-DE8E30ADF3D8@gmail.com>

Inform user that in fact his password had been changed and have him
change it back to the one reflected in the fetchmailrc file.

On Jul 13, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:

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> So... what was the solution?
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> On 07/13/08 15:18, JT Gray wrote:
>> Yep, thanks for the assistance.
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net
>> <mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> "fetchmail -v" would log that.
>>
>> On 07/13/08 14:44, JT Gray wrote:
>>> The answer was that the user had changed the remote password,
>>> causing
>>> the fetchmailrc's password to fail.
>>
>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Jeremiah T. Gray
>> <jtgray79@gmail.com <mailto:jtgray79@gmail.com>
>>> <mailto:jtgray79@gmail.com <mailto:jtgray79@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ron, I did not try this yet but will in the morning; it's a
>> new job,
>>> so I've been having to figure out how the whole system
>>> works. To
>>> that end, it uses LDAP and runs bind9 on two separate boxes
>>> using
>>> two different subnets, so there are potential points at which
>>> problems can occur. I will probably be back asking about
>>> some of
>>> the other ones before long!
>>
>>> Thanks for the help; I'll report my results.
>>
>>> Jeremiah
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Jul 12, 2008, at 9:30 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Have you tried logging in as a specific user and running:
>>> $ fetchmail -v
>>> while in another window "# tail -f /var/log/mail.log"?
>
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>
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