From: Matthias A. <mat...@gm...> - 2012-02-01 23:24:01
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Am 30.01.2012 21:15, schrieb Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson: > Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> writes: > >> The version Johann is running is outdated, because a relevant switch >> named "bad-header" has been added in release 6.3.15 in Early 2010, and >> has been more prominent since 6.3.18. > > Thank you. I'm using 6.3.21 now and life is better. It could be made > more explicit in the manual how to use the option in the run control > file. I had to read the description on the command line flag to learn I > have to use "accept" in there too. Johann, improving documentation is a constant struggle, so please help me a bit: Where did you look first, so that I can amend to that section, or redirect users to the command line options? Basically the options are the same, with two major differences: - rcfile options don't use the "--" hyphens - rcfile options need to be grouped into per-server and per-user options, whereas command line options can be given in arbitrary order (and then override all options from all servers in the rcfile). > For the record, this is how my yahoo entry reads at the moment: > > poll pop.mail.yahoo.com proto pop3 service 995 uidl bad-header accept > user "myrkraverk" > ssl keep > mda "maildrop -f %F /home/johann/.maildroprc.yahoo" > > and the password is stored in the .netrc file. I routinely suggest to add "sslcertck" (without quotes), too, it would go somewhere after the user option somewhere, for instance, "ssl sslcertck keep". A future fetchmail release will make that default, but considerations about compatibility with older versions made me not do that in 6.X.Y versions. To use that, one may need to install root certificates (if such a package is available and how it's named depends on the respective distribution). HTH |