[ale] fetchmail auth failure with yahoo

David S. Jackson deepbsd at earthlink.net
Wed Apr 17 13:24:55 EDT 2002


Hi,

I get a 

fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying pop.mail.yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at Wed Apr
17 13:21:59 2002: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT

from fetchmail.  I'm certain I have the correct username and password.
I moved the mailserver from one box to another.  I diffed the two
fetchmailrc's and there was no difference, only the host name talking to
mail.yahoo.com.

the line is

poll pop.mail.yahoo.com proto pop3 user deepbsd password ******** is dsj
here

(substitute ******* with my passwd, of course.)

Any ideas what the problem would be?

TIA

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David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
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