Re: [Solved] Unable to configure .fetchmailrc

Roger Price <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Mon, 17 Aug 2026, Michel Verdier wrote:

> What is your version ? Here I have fetchmail 6.4.39-1

  rprice@titan ~ apt show fetchmail
  Package: fetchmail
  Version: 6.4.39-1

> And man fetchmail or fetchmailrc shows :
> GENERAL OPERATION
>        Command-line  options  override ~/.fetchmailrc declarations.

When I started to write the message, I had not yet understood that 
« Command-line options override ~/.fetchmailrc declarations » means that Debian 
13 replaces ~/.fetchmailrc with /etc/fetchmailrc .

Roger
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