Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.26-1
Severity: normal
99% of the time, fetchmail seems to work A-OK for
me.
Thank you very much for maintaining it.
A cron job ran fetchmail every minute for years.
Maybe about soon after I upgraded some gnutls packages,
about 1% of the times cron ran fetchmail, cron started
sending me emails saying
fetchmail: Connection errors for this poll:
name 0: connection to <mailserver>:995 [1.2.3.4/995] failed: Connection
refused.
POP3 connection to <mailserver> failed: Connection refused
It happens with versions 6.3.22-2 and 6.3.26-1 of Debian's
fetchmail package.
I suspect it also happened with version 6.3.22-1.
Running fetchmail as
fetchmail -vvv --nodetach --nosyslog
sometimes reported
fetchmail: running ssh %h /usr/sbin/imapd (host <mailserver2> service imap)
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from kingsley@<mailserver2>
fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: *.<web_hosting_company_mail> !=
<mailserver1>
The bug stops as mysteriously as it starts.
To the best of my knowledge, no emails were lost.
About a month ago, I stopped running fetchmail as
a cron job, and started running it as a daemon
with
/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 60
This seems to have solved the problem.
I hope that helps,
Kingsley
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii adduser 3.113 add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 4.0.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.17-1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcomerr2 1.42~WIP-2011-07-02-1 common error description library
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.10.1+dfsg-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii libkrb5-3 1.10.1+dfsg-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1e-1 SSL shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20120623 Common CA certificates
Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.80-5.1 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
pn fetchmailconf <none> (no description available)
pn resolvconf <none> (no description available)
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/fetchmail changed [not included]
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/fetchmail [Errno 13] Permission denied:
u'/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/fetchmail'
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation/fetchmail [Errno 13] Permission denied:
u'/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation/fetchmail'
/etc/ppp/ip-down.d/fetchmail [Errno 13] Permission denied:
u'/etc/ppp/ip-down.d/fetchmail'
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail [Errno 13] Permission denied:
u'/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail'
-- debconf information excluded
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