Re: [Fetchmail-users] systemd start error

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 04.02.20 um 06:45 schrieb Joe Acquisto-j4:
> Thanks for your reply and pointers.
>
> The solution to the immediate problem had to do with ownership of the file
> name provided by the variable ($FETCHMAIL_RC_PATH), which in this case
> was "/etc/fetchmailrc".  When ownership was changed to "fetchmail", the
> systemd startup magic was satisfied and fetchmail started upon system startup.
>
> Sorry I did not specify that the new OS is of current vintage and provided nearly
> up to date versions of fetchmail (6.3.26), Postfix and Spamassassin.

Careful with "nearly up to date" - there have been 250 change sets and
6½ years since 6.3.26. to 6.4.x, many of them significant, some for
performance, some for TLS support, and whatnot. 

<https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/message/36773574/>

<https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/blob/8e10e1fe4fb5aacbed489255d94aeefcef075e81/NEWS#L77>


> I chose to use the OS packaged versions for ease of setup and will certainly
> update to the latest versions rather soon.
OS packaged versions means ask the OS vendor for support. I will not
support 6.3.26 on this list.
> [...]
> It all actually progressed much more smoothly than I had thought likely
> and has been working well for several days.
>
> Thank you for a solid product.

:-)