[ale] fetchmail auth failure with yahoo

[Allan Neal]

Yeah, the problem is that they no longer offer POP3 and mail forwarding for
free.  If you sign up to pay before April 24 they will only charge you 19.xx
for the year, 30% off.  I would recommend going somewhere else.  I went to
www.myrealbox.com.

Allan

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:24:55PM -0400, David S. Jackson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I get a 
> 
> fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying pop.mail.yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at Wed Apr
> 17 13:21:59 2002: poll completed
> fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)
> fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
> 
> from fetchmail.  I'm certain I have the correct username and password.
> I moved the mailserver from one box to another.  I diffed the two
> fetchmailrc's and there was no difference, only the host name talking to
> mail.yahoo.com.
> 
> the line is
> 
> poll pop.mail.yahoo.com proto pop3 user deepbsd password ******** is dsj
> here
> 
> (substitute ******* with my passwd, of course.)
> 
> Any ideas what the problem would be?
> 
> TIA
> 
> -- 
> David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
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Allan Neal
allankneal at myrealbox.com
"Artificial Intelligence is no match for human stupidity"

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