On 6/4/07, Dennis Wollersheim <dew...@cs...> wrote:
> Hello fellow fetchmail'ers
>
> I am trying to use fetchmail from the command line, but I can't find
> examples of how to do it. Specifically, I need it to get the password
> from the command line:
>
> I have tried something like the following
>
> fetchmail -S mail.target.com --keep --uidl poll mail.source.com proto
> POP3 user 'dewoller' password 'password' 'tar...@ta...'
Keep in mind that on many OSs any other user of the system will be
able to see the password in the process space.
> Failing this, is there a way to get fetchmail to read it's configuration
> from a designated run file, instead of the default '.fetchmailrc'?
Yes, the "-f" option:
http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-man.html#10
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