fetchmail: could not decode BASE64 challenge

Chris Finch

fetchmail 6.2.2 isn't able to fetch any mail (from the various pop3 accounts in my fetchmailrc) here. Instead, it outputs

weird wonko · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 141

I get the same message with 6.2.2, but apart from that I have no trouble, fetchmail fetches mail since before.

b1nd3n14l · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 80

Are you using any kerberos?

Check out the man page on fetchmail and the option
"--auth"

Maybe post
fetchmail -v -v
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Chris Finch · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 7:47 pm Post subject:

Hi,

thank you for your responses. I have re-upgraded to 6.2.2-r2. It still prints the error message and other than that it fetches my mail correctly. I do not use kerberos (not that I know, at least), a typical line in my fetchmailrc reads

poll pop.gmx.de with proto POP3 interval 10
user 'XYZ@gmx.de' there with password 'ABC' is 'joe' here
and wants fetchall mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"

I have looked at the output of fetchmail -v -v, the only abnormality was that two of the pop-servers did not understand the CAPA command. The fetchmail -v -v output does not mention anything about BASE64. As the error message that I get in non-verbose mode is also printed out twice, I wonder whether fetchmail actually wants to tell me about CAPA but picks the wrong text? What are your thoughts?

b1nd3n14l · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 80

Not sure about that...

If I get some time Ill take a look at the source code.

Glad to hear it gets your mail tho.
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