Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail 6.3.0 released

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 07/12/05, Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> wrote:
>
> What is your master configuration?

I don't really have one, what I have is a number of files that start like this:

defaults proto pop3                     # Default to POP3 mail servers
        no rewrite                      # Don't rewrite headers
                # NOTE: the TRACEPOLLS line is supressed if the
following is used...
        set invisible                   # Don't appear in headers
        set no bouncemail               # Don't bounce mail in error -
give it to...
        set syslog                      # Log to syslog under the "mail" heading
        set idfile      /etc/fetchids-by        # Where to store the
POP3 UID lists

With the idfile changing for each one.  I've got a total of 4 separate
fetchmailrcs and fetchid files (one for each ISP effectively).  None
of these run as root, so the files in /etc look like:

-rw-------  1 fetchmail-by     wheel     0 Dec  4 22:32 fetchids-by
-rw-------  1 fetchmail-lance  wheel   237 Dec  7 07:19 fetchids-lance
-rw-------  1 fetchmail-one    wheel     0 Jan 23  2004 fetchids-one
-rw-------  1 fetchmail-other  wheel     0 Jan 23  2004 fetchids-other
-rw-------  1 fetchmail-by     wheel  2545 Dec  5 21:18 fetchmailrc-by
-rw-------  1 fetchmail-lance  wheel  1133 Dec  2 14:44 fetchmailrc-lance
-rw-------  1 fetchmail-one    wheel  2381 Oct  3 07:47 fetchmailrc-one
-rw-------  1 fetchmail-other  wheel  1144 Oct 28 05:54 fetchmailrc-other

The solution was easy, create an /etc/fetchmail directory, with
subdirectories for each account.  It's just that the error message
didn't appear under 6.2.x, though it's entirely possible it was
equally broken (on that note, I'm pleased to see a general improvement
of error message quality, including mailbox names in some of the more
common messages was a stroke of genius on somebody's part).

On a vaguely unrelated note - there's a documentation error relating
to ssl support.  Having just this morning noticed that one of my
remote providers supports TLS I set about getting things working, what
caught me was:

(Keyword: sslcertpath) Sets the directory fetchmail uses to look up
local certificates. The default is your OpenSSL default one.

Well, actually, it doesn't look like there is a default (at least not
on FreeBSD 5.4).  I had to explicitly state the path for each server I
was polling.

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