[opensuse] SOT: fetchmail and AOL's SSL mail
While I was on vacation, my wife's AOL account switched to mandatory SSL e-mail. It's taken me several hours of Googling and fiddling to find something that works. The non-obvious key was to specify SSL, not SSLPROTO. The first few lines of .fetchmailrc needs to look something like this: poll pop.aol.com with proto POP3 service pop3s user 'AOL_username' there with password 'AOL_PASSWORD' ssl is I'm posting here because it is the only place I have OT access to that Google and probably other search engines will index. SSLPROTO 'TLS1' does not work. Perhaps another SSL protocol would. I see no reason to override AOL's first choice. Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Date & Time: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 21:05:25 -0600
"Jeffrey L. Taylor"
While I was on vacation, my wife's AOL account switched to mandatory SSL e-mail. It's taken me several hours of Googling and fiddling to find something that works. The non-obvious key was to specify SSL, not SSLPROTO. The first few lines of .fetchmailrc needs to look something like this:
poll pop.aol.com with proto POP3 service pop3s user 'AOL_username' there with password 'AOL_PASSWORD' ssl is
How about this? poll pop.aol.com with proto POP3 service pop3s port 995 user 'AOL_username' there with password 'AOL_PASSWORD' ssl HTH, Regards, --- ┏━━┓彡 Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiya @ galaxy.dti.ne.jp ┃\/彡 ┗━━┛ "Bill! You married with Computers. Not with Me!" "No..., with money." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Subject : [opensuse] SOT: fetchmail and AOL's SSL mail Message-ID : <20171126030525.GD3945@viajero.bearhouse.lan> Date & Time: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 21:05:25 -0600
"Jeffrey L. Taylor"
has written: While I was on vacation, my wife's AOL account switched to mandatory SSL e-mail. It's taken me several hours of Googling and fiddling to find something that works. The non-obvious key was to specify SSL, not SSLPROTO. The first few lines of .fetchmailrc needs to look something like this:
poll pop.aol.com with proto POP3 service pop3s user 'AOL_username' there with password 'AOL_PASSWORD' ssl is
How about this?
poll pop.aol.com with proto POP3 service pop3s port 995 user 'AOL_username' there with password 'AOL_PASSWORD' ssl
"service pop3s" and "port 995" are synonymous. My reading of the man pages is that port is obsolete or deprecated. Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
* Jeffrey L. Taylor
While I was on vacation, my wife's AOL account switched to mandatory SSL e-mail. It's taken me several hours of Googling and fiddling to find something that works. The non-obvious key was to specify SSL, not SSLPROTO. The first few lines of .fetchmailrc needs to look something like this:
poll pop.aol.com with proto POP3 service pop3s user 'AOL_username' there with password 'AOL_PASSWORD' ssl is
I'm posting here because it is the only place I have OT access to that Google and probably other search engines will index.
SSLPROTO 'TLS1' does not work. Perhaps another SSL protocol would. I see no reason to override AOL's first choice.
I don't have aol, but do have a hotmail account and I use: poll pop3.live.com tracepolls with proto POP3 timeout 60 user '<user>@hotmail.com' there with password '<passwd>' is \ '<user>' here options fetchall stripcr sslproto tls1 ssl \ sslcertck -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2017-11-25 at 21:05 -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
While I was on vacation, my wife's AOL account switched to mandatory SSL e-mail. It's taken me several hours of Googling and fiddling to find something that works. The non-obvious key was to specify SSL, not SSLPROTO. The first few lines of .fetchmailrc needs to look something like this:
Something I do is trying to setup the account in Thunderbird instead, because it has a database of accounts and some automatics. Once it connects, I translate the settings to fetchmail. Of course, in some cases it is impossible to translate: for instance, oauth2 is not supported in fetchmail and will not be. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlodyLUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VI8wCgidyGuAzFiHZNW04h9yJV67nK xGYAn0XwUPFNnZgbFSzGaVraLqz31wHA =pcLi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
* Carlos E. R.
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On Saturday, 2017-11-25 at 21:05 -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
While I was on vacation, my wife's AOL account switched to mandatory SSL e-mail. It's taken me several hours of Googling and fiddling to find something that works. The non-obvious key was to specify SSL, not SSLPROTO. The first few lines of .fetchmailrc needs to look something like this:
Something I do is trying to setup the account in Thunderbird instead, because it has a database of accounts and some automatics. Once it connects, I translate the settings to fetchmail.
Of course, in some cases it is impossible to translate: for instance, oauth2 is not supported in fetchmail and will not be.
there is also: fetchmailconf but I would make a copy of fetchmailrc before using it. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Carlos E. R.
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Jeffrey L. Taylor
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Masaru Nomiya
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Patrick Shanahan