Hi, Lately I'm seeing hundreds of these messages in the warning log: fetchmail[29583]: Unknown login or authentication error on robin....@imap.telefonica.net fetchmail[29583]: socket error while fetching from robin.....@imap.telefonica.net It is connecting on some attempts and failing on others. Looking at the verbose log entries, I see: Sep 19 22:27:40 nimrodel fetchmail[29583] : 6.3.11 querying imap.telefonica.net (protocol IMAP) at Sun Sep 19 22:27:40 2010: poll started : Trying to connect to 213.4.149.65/143...connected. : IMAP< * OK IMAP4 PROXY server ready : IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY : IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS IDLE LOGIN-REFERRALS NAMESPACE QUOTA CHILDREN SORT AUTH=CRAM-MD5 : IMAP< A0001 OK capabilities listed : imap.telefonica.net: opportunistic upgrade to TLS failed, trying to continue : IMAP> A0002 NOOP : IMAP< A0002 OK NOOP complete : IMAP> A0003 AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5 : IMAP< + PDM2......+ : IMAP> cm9....== : IMAP< * BYE disconnecting : IMAP< A0003 NO you are not allowed to act as a proxy server : IMAP> A0004 * : IMAP> A0005 LOGIN "robin...." * : IMAP> A0006 * : Unknown login or authentication error on robin....@imap.telefonica.net : socket error while fetching from robin....@imap.telefonica.net : 6.3.11 querying imap.telefonica.net (protocol IMAP) at Sun Sep 19 22:27:41 2010: poll completed : Query status=2 (SOCKET) Sep 19 22:27:41 It is something happening only with fetchmail, with thunderbird I see no complains. What in the penguin name can be that "NO you are not allowed to act as a proxy server"? Why is my ISP thinking I'm a proxy server? Proxy... what? And then, on ocassion it works: Sep 19 22:07:17 nimrodel fetchmail[29583] : 6.3.11 querying imap.telefonica.net (protocol IMAP) at Sun Sep 19 22:07:17 2010: poll started : Trying to connect to 213.4.149.65/143...connected. : IMAP< * OK IMAP4 PROXY server ready : IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY : IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS IDLE LOGIN-REFERRALS NAMESPACE QUOTA CHILDREN SORT AUTH=CRAM-MD5 : IMAP< A0001 OK capabilities listed : imap.telefonica.net: opportunistic upgrade to TLS failed, trying to continue : IMAP> A0002 NOOP : IMAP< A0002 OK NOOP complete : IMAP> A0003 AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5 : IMAP< + PDc1N.....+ : IMAP> cm9ia....== : IMAP< A0003 OK authentication successful : IMAP> A0004 SELECT "Inbox" : IMAP< * 1 EXISTS : IMAP< * 1 RECENT : IMAP< * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $MDNSent) : IMAP< * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $MDNSent)] flags can be changed : IMAP< * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1255005998] mailbox UID validity .... -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org