On Friday, 24 November 2017 16:08:54 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 24/11/17 15:39, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Is there any guidance on setting up fetchmail on Gentoo to operate in > > this way? I've searched in likely places but the Gentoo docs are long > > out of date and others don't help much, so I still don't know what to > > add to /etc/ conf.d/fetchmail, nor whether I need a ~/.fetchmailrc or > > an /etc/fetchmailrc file (no sample comes with the ebuild). > > If you run fetchmail as a daemon, then you need /etc/fetchmailrc. If you > run it manually yourself, then you need ~/.fetchmailrc
The ebuild installs /etc/init.d/fetchmail and /etc/conf.d/fetchmail, so it seems to expect me to run as a daemon. But then there's no sample fetchmailrc, which surprises me. > Read the docu, Which one do you mean? The man page? > ... in particular the bit about whether or not to delete mails from the > server. Set it to NOT delete mails, then you can test it knowing that you > won't lose anything. Good idea - thanks. -- Regards, Peter.
