gmail socket error

Trying to regain ability to download gmail to my local cllient. 

Getting the following:

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fetchmail: 6.4.2-rc3 querying imap.gmail.com (protocol IMAP) at Sat Feb 13 15:17:11 2021: poll started
Sat Feb 13 15:17:11 EST 2021
fetchmail: Trying to connect to 172.253.63.108/993...connected.
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from [email protected]@imap.gmail.com
fetchmail: 6.4.2-rc3 querying imap.gmail.com (protocol IMAP) at Sat Feb 13 15:17:21 2021: poll completed
fetchmail: Merged UID list from imap.gmail.com:
 <empty>
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: sleeping at Sat Feb 13 15:17:21 2021 for 120 seconds
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Part of .fetchmalrc is below:
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# Configguration created Sat Feb  2 12:57:33 2008 by fetchmailconf 1.52 $Revision: 4740 $
set logfile "/var/log/fetchmail.log"
set postmaster "[email protected]"
set no bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
set daemon 120
. . . .

poll imap.gmail.com with proto IMAP port 993

 user '[email protected]' there with password 'sumwerd' is '[email protected]' here folder 'Inbox','Junk' fetchlimit 1 sslproto 'auto' sslcertck
   preconnect "/bin/date >> /var/log/fetchmail.log"
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