About Eric_Werme

> Why are comcast paying customers paying for past customers to have unlimited access to their comcast e-mail account forever?   My guess is that Comcast has dreams of becoming another Gmail.  Dream on.     ... View more

Thank you for posting your notice.  I haven't gotten my groundhog yet.  At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they throw the switch for everyone, whether or not we were notified about try #2. When Comcast killed of Personal Web Pages, many customers never did get notice and had no copies of their web page. ... View more

How about that?  It looks like I copied a line within my .fetchmailrc file from a different server an different password to use as a template for a new mail.comcast.net line with ssl. With the right password, 133 messages get processed right away: fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<...@returns.groups.yahoo.com> SIZE=12259 fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 Ok fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<werme@localhost> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 Ok fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF> #*******************************************.*************************************************.***********.*******************************.************************.********************.* fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 079804E0AB5 flushed fetchmail: POP3> DELE 133 fetchmail: POP3< +OK Marked to be deleted. fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: POP3< +OK Logging out, messages deleted. fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT fetchmail: SMTP< 221 2.0.0 Bye ... View more

I'm going to take a bit of a break.  I've been avoiding trying to fix Email on this ancient Linux system.  It was working fine with SSL until Nov 19 (a day that will live in infamy). I tried going back to port 110, now it's not recognizing my password.  I don't think I changed it.  Later.... For entertainment purposes, I don't think there's much to comment on: $ fetchmail -f .fetchmailcomcast -cvv Old UID list from pop3.comcast.net: <empty> Scratch list of UIDs: ... fetchmail: --check mode enabled, not fetching mail fetchmail: 6.3.21 querying pop3.comcast.net (protocol POP3) at Sun 25 Nov 2018 10:47:10 PM EST: poll started Trying to connect to 96.115.227.17/110...connected. fetchmail: POP3< +OK Dovecot ready. fetchmail: POP3> CAPA fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3< CAPA fetchmail: POP3< TOP fetchmail: POP3< UIDL fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING fetchmail: POP3< AUTH-RESP-CODE fetchmail: POP3< STLS fetchmail: POP3< USER fetchmail: POP3< SASL PLAIN LOGIN OAUTHBEARER XOAUTH2 fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> STLS fetchmail: POP3< +OK Begin TLS negotiation now. fetchmail: Certificate chain, from root to peer, starting at depth 3: fetchmail: Issuer Organization: AddTrust AB fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: AddTrust External CA Root fetchmail: Subject CommonName: AddTrust External CA Root fetchmail: Certificate at depth 2: fetchmail: Issuer Organization: AddTrust AB fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: AddTrust External CA Root fetchmail: Subject CommonName: COMODO RSA Certification Authority fetchmail: Certificate at depth 1: fetchmail: Issuer Organization: COMODO CA Limited fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: COMODO RSA Certification Authority fetchmail: Subject CommonName: COMODO RSA Organization Validation Secure Server CA fetchmail: Server certificate: fetchmail: Issuer Organization: COMODO CA Limited fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: COMODO RSA Organization Validation Secure Server CA fetchmail: Subject CommonName: imap.email.comcast.net fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: imap.email.comcast.net fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: imap.comcast.net fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: imap.xfinity.com fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: mail.comcast.net fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: mail.xfinity.com fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: pop.comcast.net fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: pop.xfinity.com fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: pop3.comcast.net fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: pop3.email.comcast.net fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: pop3.xfinity.com fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: www.imap.email.comcast.net fetchmail: pop3.comcast.net key fingerprint: CB:7D:AD:6F:27:D2:D2:BD:A6:8F:C8:12:9A:05:8D:9F fetchmail: POP3> CAPA fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3< CAPA fetchmail: POP3< TOP fetchmail: POP3< UIDL fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING fetchmail: POP3< AUTH-RESP-CODE fetchmail: POP3< USER fetchmail: POP3< SASL PLAIN LOGIN OAUTHBEARER XOAUTH2 fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: pop3.comcast.net: upgrade to TLS succeeded. fetchmail: POP3> USER ewerme fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< -ERR [AUTH] Authentication failed. fetchmail: [AUTH] Authentication failed. fetchmail: Authorization failure on ewerme@pop3.comcast.net fetchmail: For help, see http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#R15 fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: POP3< +OK Logging out fetchmail: 6.3.21 querying pop3.comcast.net (protocol POP3) at Sun 25 Nov 2018 10:47:16 PM EST: poll completed Merged UID list from pop3.comcast.net: <empty> fetchmail: normal termination, status 3 ... View more