Re: GMail pop & fetchmail

From: Peter J Ross (pjr_at_pjr-online.fsnet.co.uk)
Date: 08/07/05

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    Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 11:04:01 +0100
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    On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:19:23AM -0400, Steve Å wrote:

    > Need help please.
    >
    > I've Google'ed for the entire evening for hints on how to enable
    > procmail to fetch from GMail. Unfortunately I haven't been able to
    > find anything Debian specific.
    >
    > What I've done so far is tell procmail to fetch using SSL.

    You mean fetchmail, not procmail, I assume.

    > When I run fetchmail (standalone as opposed to daemon), I'm told SSL
    > is not enabled.
    >
    > In my research tonight, I downloaded and installed fetchmail-ssl,
    > apparently it's a 'virtual' package, and therefore not much use.

    It exists to replace the old (Woody) fetchmail-ssl with the new
    (Sarge) fetchmail, which already includes ssl support.

    > I do have OpenSSL enabled.
    >
    > Here is what I've done:
    >
    > 1/ extracted GMail Certificate to ~/home
    > 2/ extracted Thawte Certificate to ~/home
    > 3/ added the following to my ~/home/.fetchmailrc
    >
    > poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 and options no dns user
    > 'username@gmail.com' with pass "pa33w0r8" is 'username' here options ssl
    > sslcertck sslcertpath '~home/certs/.certs'
    >
    > Does anyone have any hints ?

    This works for me in .fetchmailrc:

            poll pop.gmail.com
            proto POP3
            port 995
            user 'username@gmail.com'
            pass 'password'
            ssl

    Perhaps you may need to specify the port number (and check that your
    firewall allows you to connect to it)? Also, your path for sslcertpath
    seems impossible. Did you mean ~/certs/.certs? As you can see from my
    example, you don't need the certificates, though fetchmail warns if
    they're not verifiable.

    That's all I can suggest without seeing the error messages from
    fetchmail. 

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PJR :-)
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