fetchmail cant fetch mail

Wade Smart wadesmart at gmail.com
Fri Feb 8 14:04:05 UTC 2008


Derek Broughton wrote:
> Wade Smart wrote:
> 
>>>> I dont know why fetchmail is trying to contact
>>>> pop.where.seureserver.net or why  its contacting it@ for either gmail
>>>> or secureserver.
> 
>> # setup first email service provider -> WadeSmart
>> poll mail.wadesmart.com
> 
> Ahem:
> derek at bella:~$ nslookup mail.wadesmart.com
> Server:         192.168.1.1
> Address:        192.168.1.1#53
> 
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:   mail.wadesmart.com
> Address: 72.167.82.11
> 
> derek at bella:~$ nslookup 72.167.82.11
> Server:         192.168.1.1
> Address:        192.168.1.1#53
> 
> Non-authoritative answer:
> 11.82.167.72.in-addr.arpa       name =
> p3pop01-v01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net.
> 
> So your mail provider _is_ secureserver.net.  And the only thing that was
> wrong was that both fetches were failing to authenticate.  I can't help
> with that.
> 
>> # setup second email service provider -> Gmail
>> poll pop.gmail.com
> ...
>> The gmail-pop-l-google.com only shows up when there is a problem,
>> otherwise its pop.gmail.com.
> 
> That's normal.  You _ask_ for pop.gmail.com (just as you ask for
> mail.wadesmart.com), but the big providers will use various load-sharing
> schemes to route you to different hosts, so if you see messages back from
> them (and you usually only see errors) they'll have the address of the
> physical machine.

02082008 0802 GMT-6

I know secureserver is my host - but the it at pop.where.secureserver.net 
is or was the problem.

Whatever it was, I turned on fetchmail later that night and after 12 
hours it started working so Im going to assume it was outside of my 
environment.

Wade




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