Re: [Solved] Unable to configure .fetchmailrc

On 2026-08-17, Roger Price wrote:

> 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 .

Ok I see what you mean in your first mail. Perhaps a better answer : it
is a bad idea to use /etc/fetchmailrc as you will have identifiers in
it. It is safer to run fetchmail with a non root user and thus use a
~/.fetchmailrc with restricted access. /etc/cron.d/fetchmail uses a user
fetchmail for this (hum perhaps I modified it ?).