Re: [Fetchmail-users] EarthLink issue

[Lucio C. <lu...@la...>]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2024, Michael Burgoon wrote:

> explain where the following statements go:
>
> The output of env LC_ALL=C fetchmail -V called with whatever other command-line options you used.
> The output of env LC_ALL=C fetchmail --nodetach -vvv --nosyslog with whatever other command-line options you use routinely.

The statements shall be issued from a terminal emulator (xterm, console 
etc.). It depends how you call procmail (as a daemon, or via crontab, 
whether you use .fetchmailrc  or a custom .fetchmailrc.SOMETHING

(for instance I had two (now three) different .fetchmailrc.SOMETHING fopr 
different servers, and call by crontab at different frequencies.

If I wanto to debug a particular .fetchmailrc.SOMETHING

fetchmail -V -v --nodetach --nosyslog  -f /path/to/.fetchmailrc.SOMETHING

will analyse the .fetchmailrc.SOMETHING for syntax errors (and do nothing)

fetchmail -vvv --nodetach --nosyslog  -f /path/to/.fetchmailrc.SOMETHING

will executw it and produce verbose diagnostic messages.

It's all written in the man pages (where I found it recently when I needed 
to make checks for a new server)

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