RE: [SLE] YAST and Fetchmail configuration

From: Tim Penhey (tim_at_penhey.net)
Date: 11/05/03

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    > Joe Morris wrote:
    >
    > >Just a quick question about fetchmail configuration that is done
    > as part of
    > >the Mail Transfer Agent conf.
    > >
    > On which version?

    Still SuSE 8.2

    [snip]
    > I know I seem to remember setting it up manually, i.e. getting the
    > fetchmail startup script from the docs, editting a bit as it seemed
    > older than the present startup scheme (i.e I am using 8.2), setting it
    > to use /etc/fetchmailrc, etc. It runs as root (/etc/fetchmailrc is 600
    > root.root). The time interval is set by the startup script.

    > Unless you give fetchmail an explicit command to use another MDA, it
    > will use your postfix. It works well here. BTW, you can only (at least
    > in 8.2) set up a basic set and parameters for fetchmail via Yast. You
    > need toread the docs, but you can add options manually to
    > /etc/fetchmailrc. One I needed to add to a few is ssl. HTH.

    My /etc/fetchmailrc file only has a comment in it at the moment, which is OK
    since I haven't set it up yet.

    You don't happen to know where the startup script is? I had a look in
    /etc/rc.d dirs but there doesn't seem to be any fetchmail scripts.

    Thanks again,
    Tim 

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