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How can I use fetchmail with CompuServe RPA?

April 26, 2017CompuServe fetchmail RPA

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How can I use fetchmail with CompuServe RPA?

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First, make sure your fetchmail has the RPA support compiled in. Stock fetchmail binaries (such as you might get from an RPM) don’t. You can check this by looking at the output of fetchmail -V; if you see the string “+RPA” after the version ID you’re good to go, otherwise you’ll have to build your own from sources (see the INSTALL file in the source distribution for directions). Give your CompuServe pass-phrase in lower case as your password. Add `@compuserve.com’ to your user ID so that it looks like `user @compuserve.com’, where can be either your numerical userID or your E-mail nickname. An RPA-enabled fetchmail will automatically check for csi.com in the POP server’s greeting line. If that’s found, and your user ID ends with `@compuserve.com’, it will query the server to see if it is RPA-capable, and if so do an RPA transaction rather than a plain-text password handshake. Warning: the debug (-v -v) output of fetchmail will show your pass-phrase in Unicode! These tw

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First, make sure your fetchmail has the RPA support compiled in. Stock fetchmail binaries (such as you might get from an RPM) don’t. You can check this by looking at the output of fetchmail -V; if you see the string “+RPA” after the version ID you’re good to go, otherwise you’ll have to build your own from sources (see the INSTALL file in the source distribution for directions). Give your CompuServe pass-phrase in lower case as your password. Add ‘@compuserve.com’ to your user ID so that it looks like ‘user @compuserve.com’, where can be either your numerical userID or your E-mail nickname. An RPA-enabled fetchmail will automatically check for csi.com in the POP server’s greeting line. If that’s found, and your user ID ends with ‘@compuserve.com’, it will query the server to see if it is RPA-capable, and if so do an RPA transaction rather than a plain-text password handshake. Warning: the debug (-v -v) output of fetchmail will show your pass-phrase in Unicode! These tw