Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 06:46:53
Message-Id: CF724783-4721-4FA7-BACE-B37A7BC727EF@antarean.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix by Peter Humphrey
1 On 30 November 2017 01:39:18 GMT+01:00, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 >On Monday, 27 November 2017 13:44:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 >> On Friday, 24 November 2017 18:10:21 GMT Matthias Hanft wrote:
4 >> > Peter Humphrey wrote:
5 >> > > The ebuild installs /etc/init.d/fetchmail and
6 >/etc/conf.d/fetchmail,
7 >> > > so
8 >> > > it seems to expect me to run as a daemon. But then there's no
9 >sample
10 >> > > fetchmailrc, which surprises me.
11 >> >
12 >> > A simple example line from my /etc/fetchmailrc is:
13 >> >
14 >> > poll pop.mail.server.example.com proto pop3
15 >> >
16 >> > user "your.username@there", with password "secret", is
17 >> >
18 >> > "your.username@here" here, ssl;
19 >> >
20 >> > That's all...
21 >>
22 >> Thank you Matt. That did the trick, and I now have fetchmail working.
23 >
24 >I do so wish this list wouldn't go silent for several days just after
25 >I've
26 >made a change to my email process. This isn't the first time, either.
27 >
28 >;-(
29
30 If you want an active list to test your mailsetup with, subscribe to the LKML :)
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