[afnog] fetchmail: Authorization failure on

Antonio Godinho antonio at nambu.uem.mz
Fri Oct 28 10:19:38 EAT 2005


If it's a username/password problem, it may be that you are running virtual 
mail on this server and the username would have to be full email address, 
just a thought...

Cheers,



On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:30:10 +0300, Kenneth Kabagambe wrote
> Telnet  mail.sanru.org 110
> user    alilunga
> pass   XXXX
> 
> If at this point you are authenticated, then your problem lies 
> elsewhere, if not, you might need to verify your username/password.
> 
> Alain Ilunga wrote:
> 
> >My Maildir is not empty. Sincerely, I have some
> >difficulty to locate the log file for fetchmail.
> >--- Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> a écrit :
> >
> >  
> >
> >>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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> >
> >
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