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-rw-r--r--NEWS3
-rw-r--r--fetchmail.c5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 05fa1d86..7b4aa60e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
fetchmail-4.6.3 ():
* Introduced `debug' verbosity, invocable by -v -v.
+* Make authentication failures more visible by syslogging them.
+
+There are 252 people on fetchmail-friends and 295 on fetchmail-announce.
fetchmail-4.6.2 (Fri Oct 16 12:49:30 EDT 1998):
* Time out server open requests like we do reads. This protects against
diff --git a/fetchmail.c b/fetchmail.c
index e56ee867..939eb377 100644
--- a/fetchmail.c
+++ b/fetchmail.c
@@ -528,6 +528,11 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
}
#endif /* POP3_ENABLE */
}
+ else if (querystatus == PS_AUTHFAIL) {
+ /* have it logged with priority LOG_ALERT */
+ error(querystatus, -1, "Authentication failed for %s@%s",
+ ctl->remotename, visbuf(ctl->server.pollname));
+ }
else if (!check_only &&
((querystatus!=PS_NOMAIL) || (outlevel==O_DEBUG)))
error(0, 0, "Query status=%d", querystatus);