Re: My latest attempts

Barry L. Bond <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Okay! I made type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever and commented out the
> port,and ran getmail. Here is the log from that run:
>
> 2022-11-21 03:17:34 Initializing
> SimplePOP3SSLRetriever:[email protected]:995:2022-11-21 03:20:59
> user aborted

Okay, so that's you aborting it after a hanging connect.  That's because you
were pointing to the other hostname, which isn't listening for connections on
that port (and isn't generating the ICMP message to tell you that) so it
hangs.

> I then made the server = mail.spectrum.net once again, since that is
> whatJay had said, and getmail then stopped immediately
[...]
> 2022-11-21 03:22:09 Initializing
> SimplePOP3SSLRetriever:[email protected]:995:2022-11-21
> 03:22:09 getmailOperationError error (POP error (-ERR invalid user
> name or password.))

And that, I believe, is the truth - it's a simple login failure.  You're
successfully connecting to their POP3-over-TLS service, but when getmail tries
to log in, the server is giving a credentials error - the username/password
connection is not correct.

The most common causes of this are either adding additional characters to the
password - like surrounding it with quotes - that shouldn't be there, or
specifying the wrong form of the username.

Your mailhost may be expecting the username to be "username" instead of
"[email protected]", or vice-versa.  I haven't seen your configuration so I
can't tell which you've tried.

If these suggestions don't get you going, you'll need to contact your mailhost
to get your password reset or figure out what else is causing the login
failures.

Charles
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