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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 13:44:15 +0000
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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.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.