Hi all. Thanks to bill, I changed my fetchmail configuration to use ssl, and varified that it is correct by getting mail from speakup.octothorp.org. I then adapted this configuration to reflect linserver.romuald.net.eu.org, and the user on that machine. Now, when I run fetchmail in vurbose mode, I get this. fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying linserver.romuald.net.eu.org (protocol IMAP) at Sun Aug 4 11:47:28 2002: poll started fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Courier Mail Server fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: localhost fetchmail: Server CommonName: localhost fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost != linserver.romuald.net.eu.org fetchmail: linserver.romuald.net.eu.org key fingerprint: 62:8C:ED:53:62:BC:1E:5D:9B:EF:35:23:9E:CB:37:38 fetchmail: Warning: server certificate verification: self signed certificate fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Courier Mail Server fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: localhost fetchmail: Server CommonName: localhost fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost != linserver.romuald.net.eu.org fetchmail: Warning: server certificate verification: self signed certificate fetchmail: IMAP< * OK Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2002 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. fetchmail: IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT AUTH=PLAIN fetchmail: IMAP< A0001 OK CAPABILITY completed fetchmail: IMAP> A0002 LOGIN "romualt" "*" fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 * fetchmail: Unknown login or authentication error on romualt at linserver.romuald.net.eu.org fetchmail: socket error while fetching from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying linserver.romuald.net.eu.org (protocol IMAP) at Sun Aug 4 11:47:29 2002: poll completed fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 With that in mind, I know now that something is wrong with the authentication, but I still can't figure out what. Any other help would be appreciated. Thanks. Greg