On Monday, 27 November 2017 13:44:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 24 November 2017 18:10:21 GMT Matthias Hanft wrote: > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > 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. > > > > A simple example line from my /etc/fetchmailrc is: > > > > poll pop.mail.server.example.com proto pop3 > > > > user "your.username@there", with password "secret", is > > > > "your.username@here" here, ssl; > > > > That's all... > > Thank you Matt. That did the trick, and I now have fetchmail working.
I do so wish this list wouldn't go silent for several days just after I've made a change to my email process. This isn't the first time, either. ;-( -- Regards, Peter.