Fetchmail Nolonger Fetches Mail from Google

[Bob Chiodini]

Sorry about the possibly off-topic post:

As of Thu 28 Sep 2006 11:47:56 PM EDT, I can no longer fetch mail from
pop.gmail.com.  Fetchmail produces the following:

fetchmail: Unknown login or authentication error on [e-mail]@pop.gmail.com
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from [e-mail]@pop.gmail.com
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)

Running fetchmail in the foreground with the -v option:

fetchmail: 6.3.4 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at Fri 29 Sep 2006 02:22:47 PM EDT: poll started
fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Equifax
fetchmail: Unknown Issuer CommonName
fetchmail: Server CommonName: pop.gmail.com
fetchmail: pop.gmail.com key fingerprint: 59:51:61:89:CD:DD:B2:35:94:BB:44:97:A0:39:D5:B4
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Gpop ready for requests from 67.34.137.95 28pf1185241wrl
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Capability list follows
fetchmail: POP3< USER
fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES
fetchmail: POP3< EXPIRE 0
fetchmail: POP3< LOGIN-DELAY 300
fetchmail: POP3< X-GOOGLE-VERHOEVEN
fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> USER [e-mail]
fetchmail: Unknown login or authentication error on [e-mail]@pop.gmail.com
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from [e-mail]@pop.gmail.com
fetchmail: 6.3.4 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at Fri 29 Sep 2006 02:23:47 PM EDT: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: normal termination, status 2

As best I can tell, the certs check.

openssl s_client -connect pop.gmail.com:995 -CApath /home/bob/.certs/
CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=1 /C=US/O=Equifax/OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority
verify return:1
depth=0 /C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc./CN=pop.gmail.com
verify return:1
---
Certificate chain
 0 s:/C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc./CN=pop.gmail.com
   i:/C=US/O=Equifax/OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority
---
Server certificate
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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-----END CERTIFICATE-----
subject=/C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc./CN=pop.gmail.com
issuer=/C=US/O=Equifax/OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 891 bytes and written 332 bytes
---
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is DES-CBC3-SHA
Server public key is 1024 bit
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : TLSv1
    Cipher    : DES-CBC3-SHA
    Session-ID: 21F49F1DF2F05D6B518D5ED4EFC2E670BF019E1E5CDE113D56812A0344B37644
    Session-ID-ctx:
    Master-Key: BC84BAA384BE7DC5757D505D1223966F38A0DCF38216A47B49A63B902ADDE39156923D1F11DA88D2A29E7E818A70060A
    Key-Arg   : None
    Krb5 Principal: None
    Start Time: 1159554385
    Timeout   : 300 (sec)
    Verify return code: 0 (ok)
---
+OK Gpop ready for requests from 67.34.137.95 44pf2498554wri
DONE

Nothing has changed in my config.  Help :-(

Bob...

[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 14:42 -0400, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> Sorry about the possibly off-topic post:
>
> As of Thu 28 Sep 2006 11:47:56 PM EDT, I can no longer fetch mail from
> pop.gmail.com.  Fetchmail produces the following:
>
> fetchmail: Unknown login or authentication error on [e-mail]@pop.gmail.com
> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from [e-mail]@pop.gmail.com
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
>
> Running fetchmail in the foreground with the -v option:
>
> fetchmail: 6.3.4 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at Fri 29 Sep 2006 02:22:47 PM EDT: poll started
> fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Equifax
> fetchmail: Unknown Issuer CommonName
> fetchmail: Server CommonName: pop.gmail.com
> fetchmail: pop.gmail.com key fingerprint: 59:51:61:89:CD:DD:B2:35:94:BB:44:97:A0:39:D5:B4
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Gpop ready for requests from 67.34.137.95 28pf1185241wrl
> fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Capability list follows
> fetchmail: POP3< USER
> fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES
> fetchmail: POP3< EXPIRE 0
> fetchmail: POP3< LOGIN-DELAY 300
> fetchmail: POP3< X-GOOGLE-VERHOEVEN
> fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
> fetchmail: POP3< .
> fetchmail: POP3> USER [e-mail]
> fetchmail: Unknown login or authentication error on [e-mail]@pop.gmail.com
> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from [e-mail]@pop.gmail.com
> fetchmail: 6.3.4 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at Fri 29 Sep 2006 02:23:47 PM EDT: poll completed
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 2
>
> As best I can tell, the certs check.

That's not it.  Google didn't verify your username.  It sure looks like
they're automatically adding the "@gmail.com" bit, so you're getting
a double domain.  Try changing fetchmail's username to JUST "bchiodini"
and see if that works.

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[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 13:05 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 14:42 -0400, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> > Sorry about the possibly off-topic post:
> >
> > As of Thu 28 Sep 2006 11:47:56 PM EDT, I can no longer fetch mail from
> > pop.gmail.com.  Fetchmail produces the following:
>
> That's not it.  Google didn't verify your username.  It sure looks like
> they're automatically adding the "@gmail.com" bit, so you're getting
> a double domain.  Try changing fetchmail's username to JUST "bchiodini"
> and see if that works.

You can substitute googlemail for gmail in your send-receive setups when
gmail goes bananas on you. (pop.googlemail.com and
smtp.googlemail.com:465) That worked for me. No more problems. Ric

[Bob Chiodini]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 13:05 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 14:42 -0400, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> > > Sorry about the possibly off-topic post:
> > >
> > > As of Thu 28 Sep 2006 11:47:56 PM EDT, I can no longer fetch mail from
> > > pop.gmail.com.  Fetchmail produces the following:
> >
> > That's not it.  Google didn't verify your username.  It sure looks like
> > they're automatically adding the "@gmail.com" bit, so you're getting
> > a double domain.  Try changing fetchmail's username to JUST "bchiodini"
> > and see if that works.
>
> You can substitute googlemail for gmail in your send-receive setups when
> gmail goes bananas on you. (pop.googlemail.com and
> smtp.googlemail.com:465) That worked for me. No more problems. Ric

Thanks for the suggestions.

I tried without the "@gmail.com", no luck.

It did start working at Fri 29 Sep 2006 06:17:53 PM EDT.  No explanation.

Ric, I'll keep your ideas in case it happens again.

Bob...

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 16:03 -0400, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> > You can substitute googlemail for gmail in your send-receive setups when
> > gmail goes bananas on you. (pop.googlemail.com and
> > smtp.googlemail.com:465) That worked for me. No more problems. Ric
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> I tried without the "@gmail.com", no luck.
>
> It did start working at Fri 29 Sep 2006 06:17:53 PM EDT.  No explanation.
>
> Ric, I'll keep your ideas in case it happens again.

That's all I use now. Not had any problems with it. I think gmail.com
gets hit harder than googlemail.com. Now my damn network has gone down
again, so it's ANOTHER witch-hunt. <sighs> Ric

[Rob Brown-Bayliss]

On 9/30/06, Bob Chiodini  wrote:
> Sorry about the possibly off-topic post:
>
> As of Thu 28 Sep 2006 11:47:56 PM EDT, I can no longer fetch mail from
> pop.gmail.com.  Fetchmail produces the following:
>
> fetchmail: Unknown login or authentication error on [e-mail]@pop.gmail.com
> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from [e-mail]@pop.gmail.com

I had a similar problem some time ago.  fetchmail just stopped with
gmail.  It turns out I had made two failed attempts to log in via pop
(possibly network issue?) after which gmail will refuse all pop logins
for the account untill some thing has been reset...

Sorry, but I can't recall the web page at gmail that you need to go to
for the reset, but I did find it using (you guessed it) google
search...