• Re: [Solved] Unable to configure .fetchmailrc

    From Ralf Fassel@3:633/10 to All on Monday, August 17, 2026 12:40:02
    * Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org>
    | 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
    | ®ÿCommand-line options override ~/.fetchmailrc declarationsÿ¯ 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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