POP from gmail using fetchmail

[Technomage]

gmail uses the pop3s port (and encrypted authentication).

smtp is on port 665 and pop is on port 995


On Thursday 06 October 2005 11:24, Lynn David Newton wrote:
> Does anyone know the correct way to make POP3 retrieve
> email from a gmail.com account using fetchmail?
>
> BTW, I'm using SuSE 9.2.
>
> I use the fetchmail daemon to retrieve email. Works
> fine, always has.
>
> fetchmail sends retrieved mail to be filtered by
> procmail, which I then pick up and read using XEmacs
> (the VM package). I don't use Thunderbird or one of the
> more commonly used email clients. That should not be a
> factor, because the problem has to do simply with
> getting the mail from my account at gmail.com to here,
> not with filtering and reading it.
>
> A line like this is in my fetchmail configuration file
>
> poll "pop.gmail.com" protocol POP3 : user "NOTMYREALGMAILUSERNAME" there
> with password "NOTMYREALPASSWORD" is "NOTMYREALLOCALUSERNAME" here ;
>
> This follows exactly the model of the other lines I've
> used for years that *do* work.
>
> Upon restarting the fetchmail daemon, the log file
> (/var/log/fetchmail) shows lines of this type:
>
> fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to connect to server
> pop.gmail.com. fetchmail: socket error while fetching from pop.gmail.com
>
> Yes, I have followed the instructions shown at:
>
> https://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13273
>
> And according to the instructions in
>
> https://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13285
>
> pop.gmail.com *is* the correct system to poll according
> to that (unless I've misread it). Also, I can ping that
> address.
>
> I don't know what to do next, except probably to
> disable that line for now, because if I'm polling every
> 60 seconds and they're taking 300 seconds to time out,
> somewhere along the line there might be requests
> stacking up.
>
> Help!?? Thank you.