[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#713018: Bug#713018: Occasionally complains with "fetchmail: socket error while fetching from..."

[Nico Golde]

Hi,
* Kingsley G. Morse Jr. <kingsley at loaner.com> [2013-06-21 23:39]:
> 99% of the time, fetchmail seems to work A-OK for
> me.
> 
> Thank you very much for maintaining it.
> 
> A cron job ran fetchmail every minute for years.
> 
> Maybe about soon after I upgraded some gnutls packages,
> about 1% of the times cron ran fetchmail, cron started
> sending me emails saying
> 
>     fetchmail: Connection errors for this poll:
>     name 0: connection to <mailserver>:995 [1.2.3.4/995] failed: Connection refused.
>     POP3 connection to <mailserver> failed: Connection refused
> 
> It happens with versions 6.3.22-2 and 6.3.26-1 of Debian's
> fetchmail package.
> 
> I suspect it also happened with version 6.3.22-1.
> 
> Running fetchmail as
> 
>     fetchmail -vvv  --nodetach --nosyslog
> 
> sometimes reported
> 
>     fetchmail: running ssh %h /usr/sbin/imapd (host <mailserver2> service imap)
>     fetchmail: socket error while fetching from kingsley@<mailserver2>
>     fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: *.<web_hosting_company_mail> != <mailserver1>

This sounds like http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#R6

Can you check this?

Cheers
Nico
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