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On 24/11/17 15:39, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Is there any guidance on setting up fetchmail on Gentoo to operate in this |
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> way? I've searched in likely places but the Gentoo docs are long out of date |
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> and others don't help much, so I still don't know what to add to /etc/ |
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> conf.d/fetchmail, nor whether I need a ~/.fetchmailrc or an /etc/fetchmailrc |
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> file (no sample comes with the ebuild). |
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If you run fetchmail as a daemon, then you need /etc/fetchmailrc. If you |
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run it manually yourself, then you need ~/.fetchmailrc |
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Read the docu, in particular the bit about whether or not to delete |
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mails from the server. Set it to NOT delete mails, then you can test it |
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knowing that you won't lose anything. |
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I believe it keeps a log file of what it's downloaded, so for testing |
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purposes you may want to find and delete that. |
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And if you run it with the --verbose option, it'll tell you what it's |
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doing. I generally pipe that through the "tee" command, so I can see |
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whether it's doing what I expect, then I can examine the output in more |
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detail to check. |
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Beyond that, I would say you're doing a right thing. fetchmail is good |
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software. The only reason I'm not using it is MySQL broke, which took |
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out my virtual usernames, which broke postfix and fetchmail delivery :-( |
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And I've never got round to fixing MySQL. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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