Fetchmail 5.1.0 will send an email warning message and abort if it gets an authentication failure when running in daemon mode. With frequent polling, POP3 authentication failures are not uncommon. Fetchmail 5.1.0 is not usable for me because of this problem, and I have reverted to the 4.5.8 distribution from Red Hat 5.2. The vendor (Eric Raymond) has released newer versions of fetchmail which, according to the on-line documentation, can be configured to tolerate authentication failures without aborting. Please make a newer version available to overcome this issue. See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/NEWS Thanks. -Peter
The current revision of fetchmail in Raw Hide (which will be used in the next release unless it gets updated further) is 5.2.5.