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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mail problem : solved
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:45:08
Message-Id: 20120919134152.7fb47e14@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] new machine : mail problem : solved by Philip Webb
1 On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:18:45 -0400
2 Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
3
4 > RTFM : front + centre it says to try 'fetchmail -vvv --nodetach
5 > --nosyslog'. That immediately told me the very non-obvious but
6 > crucial information : " ~/.fetchmail must have no more permissions
7 > than 700". Whyever ?
8
9 That's quite normal actually. The file might contain passwords and you
10 don't want every joker on the system reading them.
11
12 It *really* should have printed that warning to the console though.
13
14 --
15 Alan McKinnon
16 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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