From: NoEMail@home.org   
      
   Bit Twister  wrote:   
   > On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 17:27:19 -0000 (UTC), root wrote:   
   >> This morning mailx fails with:   
   >> mailx: could not initiate TLS connection:   
   >> error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)   
   >>   
   >> I can only conclude this is the result of   
   >> something new at gmail. Any suggestions?   
   >   
   > I can not say for sure but I do know I seem to get gmail   
   > failures every two or three days from my 24/7 hourly fetchmail cron   
   > jobs. All of them are log in failures. I noticed fetchmail goes   
   > into a tight loop upon login failure. Had to add a spawn kill fetchmail   
   > if still running after a minute.   
   >   
   > My guess was that gmail suspends your login if too many attempts   
   > from your ip.  I have seven separate accounts running fetchmail on   
   > the hour and assumed I cross a threshold every once in awhile.   
      
   I don't use chron to fetchmail. I just pull it down from time   
   to time. I got this message on the second of three emails   
   that I pulled down together. A while later I was able to   
   send email to the site. Still later I got the TLS message   
   again. I have mit.edu address for the recipient so I can   
   still get email to him.   
      
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