Re: [Solved] Unable to configure .fetchmailrc

<[email protected]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:16:45 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.user
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 11:52:17AM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> 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 .

This doesn't make any sense to me. Command line options is something totally
different to /etc/fetchmailrc.

Cheers
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