fetchmail cant fetch mail

Dan Farrell dan at spore.ath.cx
Sat Feb 9 20:52:49 UTC 2008


On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:04:05 -0600
Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 

Wade, you must host your email on Godaddy.  make sure you don't have
your email set up to forward to 'it' or to catch-all on the godaddy
site.  




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