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On Friday, 24 November 2017 16:08:54 GMT Wols Lists wrote: |
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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 |
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> > this way? I've searched in likely places but the Gentoo docs are long |
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> > out of date and others don't help much, so I still don't know what to |
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> > add to /etc/ conf.d/fetchmail, nor whether I need a ~/.fetchmailrc or |
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> > an /etc/fetchmailrc 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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The ebuild installs /etc/init.d/fetchmail and /etc/conf.d/fetchmail, so it |
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seems to expect me to run as a daemon. But then there's no sample |
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fetchmailrc, which surprises me. |
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> Read the docu, |
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Which one do you mean? The man page? |
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> ... in particular the bit about whether or not to delete mails from the |
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> server. Set it to NOT delete mails, then you can test it knowing that you |
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> won't lose anything. |
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Good idea - thanks. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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