From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EEAEA139083 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:35:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE9ACE0EFD; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:34:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 79B8DE0EB4 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:34:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1eIGwG-0007Px-IV for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:34:52 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:34:51 +0000 Message-ID: <2128624.EhtZOo38rr@peak> In-Reply-To: <5A184416.9010302@youngman.org.uk> References: <2105357.N7kWRluRGt@peak> <5A184416.9010302@youngman.org.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: 580ef8c1-68f4-4f1a-9f2b-53a7a1a6ccb9 X-Archives-Hash: 526ab20505f7786659ae54e7beeefe10 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 out of date and others don't help much, so I still don't know what to 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.