Re: Warning users about authentication failures

On 6/21/25 12:48, Matthias Andree via Fetchmail-users wrote:

Hello.

Thanks for your answer.



> these warnings work only in daemon mode

That's my case.



> fetchmail runs for a sufficiently long time

It's usually weeks, if not months before I restart it.



> fetchmail didn't authenticate successfully, it should send the warning 
> after 3 failed attempts;

It did (in the past); only it doesn't anymore :(



> If fetchmail is triggered purely by cron or systemd timer or similar, 

Not my case.



> Changes to configuration files also trigger fetchmail 
> to discard state and re-execute itself.

These are very rare.



> Oh, one more thing, this only happens on authentication failures and timeouts BUT NOT on other errors,

That's fine; that's what I'm trying to get.



I thought some option was added to enable/disable this, but if you 
confirm it hasn't, I guess I'll need to try and debug this.

  bye & Thanks
	av.