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On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:18:45 -0400 |
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Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> RTFM : front + centre it says to try 'fetchmail -vvv --nodetach |
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> --nosyslog'. That immediately told me the very non-obvious but |
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> crucial information : " ~/.fetchmail must have no more permissions |
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> than 700". Whyever ? |
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That's quite normal actually. The file might contain passwords and you |
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don't want every joker on the system reading them. |
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It *really* should have printed that warning to the console though. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |