Re: [Solved] Unable to configure .fetchmailrc

Ralf Fassel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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* Roger Price <[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 .

That might be true for the root user, but my stock version of fetchmail
on Debian-13 (also 6.4.39-1) definitely uses my (non-root-user) ~/.fetchmailrc.

R'
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