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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