Re: [Solved] Unable to configure .fetchmailrc
Ralf Fassel <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.user |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
* 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'