fetchmail authorization and socket errors

[wade at wadesmart.com]

11112006 1258 GMT-6

I rebooted and then ran fetchmail -c to generate a mail.info and
mail.err log.
This is from mail.info:
Nov 11 07:52:14 wadesmart dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<wadesmart>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Nov 11 11:06:40 wadesmart postfix/master[4815]: terminating on signal 15
Nov 11 11:06:40 wadesmart dovecot: Killed with signal 15
Nov 11 11:10:05 wadesmart postfix/master[4816]: daemon started --
version 2.2.10, configuration /etc/postfix
Nov 11 11:10:06 wadesmart dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.beta3 starting up
Nov 11 11:10:06 wadesmart dovecot: Generating Diffie-Hellman parameters
for the first time. This may take a while..
Nov 11 11:10:22 wadesmart dovecot: ssl-build-param: SSL parameters
regeneration completed
Nov 11 12:20:53 wadesmart dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<wadesmart>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Nov 11 12:47:16 wadesmart fetchmail[13871]: 450 messages for
wade at wadesmart.com at mail.wadesmart.com (4990589 octets).
Nov 11 12:47:17 wadesmart fetchmail[13871]: Unknown login or
authentication error on wadesmart at gmail.com@gmail-pop.l.google.com
Nov 11 12:47:17 wadesmart fetchmail[13871]: socket error while fetching
from wadesmart at gmail.com@pop.gmail.com
Nov 11 12:47:18 wadesmart fetchmail[13871]: 67 messages (57 seen) for
wadesmart at gmail.com at pop.gmail.com (7398134 octets).

and from mail.err
Nov 11 12:47:17 wadesmart fetchmail[13871]: Unknown login or
authentication error on wadesmart at gmail.com@gmail-pop.l.google.com
Nov 11 12:47:17 wadesmart fetchmail[13871]: socket error while fetching
from wadesmart at gmail.com@pop.gmail.com

wade

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: fetchmail authorization and socket errors
> From: wade at wadesmart.com
> Date: Sat, November 11, 2006 10:53 am
> To: Ubuntu Users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>, Ubuntu Yahoo Groups
> <ubuntulinux at yahoogroups.com>
>
> 11112006 1047 GMT-6
>
> I have traced my mail problems down (with help) to fetchmail errors.
>
> This is from mail.info log:
>
>   * Just before here I noticed that gweather applet wasnt working and
> would not update automatically or manually.
>   * And then I rebooted.
>
> Nov  9 11:30:40 wadesmart fetchmail[7668]: Unknown login or
> authentication error on wadesmart at gmail.com@gmail-pop.l.google.com
> Nov  9 11:30:40 wadesmart fetchmail[7668]: socket error while fetching
> from wadesmart at gmail.com@pop.gmail.com
> Nov  9 11:30:43 wadesmart fetchmail[7668]: 57 messages (57 seen) for
> wadesmart at gmail.com at pop.gmail.com (6345985 octets).
> Nov  9 11:35:44 wadesmart fetchmail[7668]: Unknown login or
> authentication error on wadesmart at gmail.com@gmail-pop.l.google.com
> Nov  9 11:35:44 wadesmart fetchmail[7668]: socket error while fetching
> from wadesmart at gmail.com@pop.gmail.com
> Nov  9 11:35:47 wadesmart fetchmail[7668]: 57 messages (57 seen) for
> wadesmart at gmail.com at pop.gmail.com (6345985 octets).
> Nov  9 11:39:18 wadesmart postfix/master[23958]: terminating on signal
> 15
> Nov  9 11:39:18 wadesmart dovecot: Killed with signal 15
> Nov  9 11:40:55 wadesmart postfix/master[4816]: daemon started --
> version 2.2.10, configuration /etc/postfix
> Nov  9 11:40:55 wadesmart dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.beta3 starting up
> Nov  9 11:40:55 wadesmart dovecot: Generating Diffie-Hellman parameters
> for the first time. This may take a while..
> Nov  9 11:41:01 wadesmart dovecot: ssl-build-param: SSL parameters
> regeneration completed
> Nov  9 12:02:40 wadesmart dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<wadesmart>,
> method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
> Nov  9 13:45:16 wadesmart postfix/master[4816]: terminating on signal 15
> Nov  9 13:45:16 wadesmart dovecot: Killed with signal 15
> Nov  9 13:48:02 wadesmart postfix/master[4815]: daemon started --
> version 2.2.10, configuration /etc/postfix
> Nov  9 13:48:03 wadesmart dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.beta3 starting up
> Nov  9 13:48:03 wadesmart dovecot: Generating Diffie-Hellman parameters
> for the first time. This may take a while..
> Nov  9 13:48:43 wadesmart dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<wadesmart>,
> method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
> Nov  9 13:48:48 wadesmart dovecot: ssl-build-param: SSL parameters
> regeneration completed
> Nov  9 13:51:46 wadesmart fetchmail[5739]: starting fetchmail 6.3.2
> daemon
> Nov  9 13:51:46 wadesmart fetchmail[5739]: Server certificate
> verification error: self signed certificate
> Nov  9 13:51:48 wadesmart fetchmail[5739]: Authorization failure on
> wadesmart at wadesmart
> Nov  9 13:51:48 wadesmart dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login:
> user=<wadesmart>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.1.1, lip=127.0.1.1, TLS
> Nov  9 13:51:48 wadesmart fetchmail[5739]: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)
> Nov  9 13:56:48 wadesmart fetchmail[5739]: Server certificate
> verification error: self signed certificate
> Nov  9 13:56:51 wadesmart fetchmail[5739]: Authorization failure on
> wadesmart at wadesmart
> Nov  9 13:56:51 wadesmart dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login:
> user=<wadesmart>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.1.1, lip=127.0.1.1, TLS
> Nov  9 13:56:51 wadesmart fetchmail[5739]: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)
> Nov  9 13:58:26 wadesmart fetchmail[5739]: terminated with signal 15
> Nov  9 13:58:30 wadesmart fetchmail[6394]: 55 messages for
> wade at wadesmart.com at mail.wadesmart.com (387691 octets).
>
> So I see two errors: socket errors when connecting to gmail and then
> authorization errors on my own system.
> What would cause this and what can I now do about it?
>
> wade
>
>
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