Re: Migrating from 6.3.24 to 6.4.38

On Sun, 26 Oct 2025, Dennis Putnam via Fetchmail-users wrote:

> I have fetchmail (6.3.24) running on CentOS 7 and am moving it to Ubuntu =

> fetchmail (6.4.38). I thought the move would be pretty much seamless but =
was =

> wrong. Apparently there are differences in the fetchmailrc file that I am=
 not =

> understanding. I am using it for gmail. Here is a sanitized portion of my =

> fetchmailrc:
>
> *set logfile "/var/log/maillog"
> set postmaster "mailman"
> set bouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
> defaults:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 timeout 240
> poll pop.gmail.com
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 proto POP3
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 user "[email protected]"
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 is uuuuuuuuu
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 password 'kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkr'
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 preconnect "echo `date '+%b %d %H:%M:%S'` uuuuuuuuu"
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ssl
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 nokeep
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 fetchall

> Trying to connect to 127.0.0.1/25...connected.
>
> *At this point it seems to hang and does not proceed to the next mailbox.
> Can someone help me fix my fetchmailrc? TIA.

I think (but am not sure) that the problem may be with your local mail
server (MTA - probably postfix or exim) rather than fetchmail.
I would look in the logs for that.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
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