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A colleague recently upgraded a Debian 8 system to Debian 9.9. Since then, this fetchmail error has been occurring:
Jun 17 11:03:02 localhost fetchmail[13802]: Your OpenSSL version does not support SSLv3.
Jun 17 11:03:02 localhost fetchmail[13802]: SSL connection failed.
Jun 17 11:03:02 localhost fetchmail[13802]: socket error while fetching from
Jun 17 11:03:02 localhost fetchmail[13802]: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
There are two local systems that have been used to collect mail from the server, an older i386 system here at work, that is working just fine. The faulty system is a newer amd64 system my colleague uses at home.
We found that the .fetchmailrc file had disappeared on this system after the upgrade. When it was recreated (from the work system), there was no change in behaviour, the error occurs endlessly and no mail is fetched.
Our .fetchmailrc file is below:
set no bouncemail
set postmaster "local_account"
poll email.server protocol pop3 port 995
with uidl
user "email.server.user" with password "this.is.not.the.password" is "local.account" here
with ssl and sslproto 'TLS1+'
with sslfingerprint "01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:10:11:12:13:14:15:FF"
with keep
smtpaddress "local.smtp.server"
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
We don't have the experience/knowledge to diagnose & fix this. Any suggestions as to what to look for and try would be greatly appreciated. Is there anything I could post here that would help this process?
Thanks in advance.
Have you specified any
ssl*
options in your~/.fetchmailrc
? – AnFi – 2019-06-17T06:57:29.030I probably should have included the .fetchmailrc file earlier shouldn't I? Here it is, with relevant "secret" bits changed:
Sorry, having trouble with formatting. Very new here, clearly lots of learning to be done . – Joe Aquilina – 2019-06-17T07:56:23.293
1@Joe: It would be better to edit your original question and add the new information there. Question content supports more options for formatting. – RedGrittyBrick – 2019-06-17T10:03:16.987
Thanjks for the suggestion, I have added the .fetchmailrc file in my question above. That looks much more readable. – Joe Aquilina – 2019-06-18T01:22:24.333