From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:39:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2080489.e8mkd7GaIN@peak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2384888.fNx4q5PHHi@peak>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-30 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-24 15:39 [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix Peter Humphrey
2017-11-24 16:08 ` Wols Lists
2017-11-24 16:34 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-11-24 18:10 ` Matthias Hanft
2017-11-27 13:44 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-11-30 0:39 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2017-11-30 6:46 ` J. Roeleveld
2017-11-30 8:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-11-24 16:16 ` Ralph Seichter
2017-11-24 16:40 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-11-24 17:29 ` Ralph Seichter
2017-11-24 17:30 ` Rich Freeman
2017-11-24 17:52 ` Ralph Seichter
2017-11-27 13:44 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-11-27 16:13 ` Ralph Seichter
2017-11-27 17:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2017-11-27 19:10 ` Ralph Seichter
2017-11-27 22:14 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-11-28 0:23 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-11-26 10:25 ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2017-11-24 22:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-11-25 8:43 ` Marc Joliet
2017-11-25 9:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-11-25 9:23 ` Marc Joliet
2017-11-25 16:20 ` Jalus Bilieyich
2017-11-26 2:30 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-11-26 6:58 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-11-26 10:45 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-11-26 15:58 ` Jalus Bilieyich
2017-11-26 8:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-11-26 10:00 ` Ralph Seichter
2017-11-26 11:00 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-11-26 17:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2017-11-26 18:46 ` Ralph Seichter
2017-11-26 19:35 ` Jack
2017-11-26 20:58 ` Wols Lists
2017-11-26 21:46 ` Rich Freeman
2017-11-26 23:05 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-11-26 23:18 ` Rich Freeman
2017-11-26 10:22 ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2017-11-26 15:25 ` Mick
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2017-11-26 7:25 roger.cahn
2017-11-26 7:26 roger.cahn
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