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Re: fetchmail 6.3.1-1 problem


David,

On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 10:47:14AM -0500, David E. Bath wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 09:02:36PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 11:19:37AM -0500, David E. Bath wrote:
> > > I recently updated fetchmail 6.3.1-1 from 6.2.5-2. I now get an
> > > error when it connects to one of my mail servers. Using "fetchamil
> > > -v" I noticed a difference in the output that indicates the likely
> > > problem.
> > > 
> > > 6.3.1-1 give this message when the connection fails:
> > > 
> > > fetchmail: 6.3.1 querying mail.********.*** (protocol POP3) at Fri Jun 16 15:05:3
> > > 1 2006: poll started
> > > fetchmail: getaddrinfo("mail.********.***","pop3s") error: nodename nor servname 
> > > provided, or not known
> > > fetchmail: POP3 connection to mail.********.*** failed: Operation not permitted
> > 
> > I was able to workaround the above by adding the following line to
> > /etc/services:
> > 
> >     pop3s             995/tcp                           #POP3 SSL
> 
> This looked very promising, but alas, no dice.

Sorry, the above worked for me with gmail.  What Cygwin version are you
using?  Can you try the latest snapshot (i.e., 2006-07-14)?  Can you
strace fetchmail to provide more information?

Thanks,
Jason

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