[imp] Fetchmail

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Fri Oct 24 11:04:26 UTC 2008


Zitat von Manuel Schwab <manuel at manuelschwab.de>:

> Hello list,
>
> Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 1.1
> IMP 4.2
>
> Strange problem when I want to configure the fetchmail option.
>
> If I choose "IMAP" as protocol, I got the error that mails from the
> other server can not be fetched because there is a Certifcate failure
> for mail.externserver.de: self signed certificate...
>
> Well thats ok because the certificate is self signed.
>
> But if I choose "IMAP over SSL (self-signed certificate) as protocol, I
> got the error message:
>
> Fetching messages: invalid email account (in German: Nachrichten
> sammeln: Ungültiges Postfach).
> I only changed the protocol option in the fetchmail configuration.
>
> So what does this exactly mean? All account information seems to be
> correct, username, password, server. And if I use POP3 everything is okay.
>
> This problem didn't occured on the previous horde version. There was no
> error with the same data.
>
> The field "invalid email account" which is under "server" is empty.
> Do if have to fill this field out? What is the reason of this field?

That was a broken translation, it should be the mailbox name you are  
fetching mails from, by default "INBOX".

Jan.

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