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R13. What does "Interrupted system call" mean?
R14. Since upgrading fetchmail/OpenSSL, I can no longer connect!
+R15. Help, I'm getting Authorization failure!
If you still need to use Google's mail service, these links may help (valid as of 2011-04-13):
+First, try upgrading to fetchmail 6.3.18 or newer. Release 6.3.18 has +received a considerable number of bug fixes for the authentication +feature (AUTH, AUTHENTICATE, SASL). Most notably, fetchmail aborts SASL +authentication attempts properly with an asterisk if it detects that it +cannot make progress with a particular authentication scheme. This fixes +issues where GSSAPI-enabled fetchmail cannot authenticate against +Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010. Note that this is a +bug in old fetchmail versions!
+ +Fetchmail by default attempts to authenticate using various schemes. +Fetchmail tries these schemes in order of descending security, meaning +the most secure schemes are tried first.
+ +However, sometimes the server offers a secure authentication scheme +that is not properly configured, or an authentication scheme such as +GSSAPI that requires credentials to be acquired externally. In some +situations, fetchmail cannot know that the scheme will fail beforehand, +without trying it. In most cases, fetchmail should proceed to the next +authentication scheme automatically, but this sometimes does not +work.
+ +Solution: Configure the right authentication scheme
+explicitly, for instance, with --auth cram-md5 or --auth
+ password on the command line or auth "cram-md5"
or
+ auth "password"
in the rcfile. Details can be found
+ in the manual page.
+ Note that auth password should only be used
+ across secure links (see the sslcertck and ssl/sslproto options).
+
The symption: 'fetchmail -v' retrieves the first few messages, +
Symptom: 'fetchmail -v' retrieves the first few messages, but hangs returning: