[afnog] fetchmail: Authorization failure on

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Thu Oct 27 18:42:27 EAT 2005


On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:17:43PM +0200,
 Alain Ilunga <alilunga at yahoo.fr> wrote 
 a message of 50 lines which said:

> I installed fetchmail on my freebsd box, I can fetch mail on
> courier-imap server (even if, I'm not able yet to deliver it in my
> Maildir) but my login fail on the server below (username and
> password is correct). Is somebody can explain me why.

Check the log. Hypothesis: courier refuses connections as long as the
maildir is empty (it is recommended to send an email message to every
new user to avoid this problem).



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