Dear Maintainer,
since 27.02.2026 on a current Debian Sid fetchmail doesn't start
anymore:
# systemctl status fetchmail
× fetchmail.service
Loaded: not-found (Reason: Unit fetchmail.service not found.)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Sat 2026-02-28
09:13:49 CET; 14min ago Duration: 23ms
Invocation: 266b827628af4128b0783249e43cba2b
Main PID: 11410 (code=exited, status=5)
Mem peak: 2M
CPU: 10ms
Feb 28 09:13:49 a1 systemd[1]: fetchmail.service: Scheduled restart
job, restart counter is at 5. Feb 28 09:13:49 a1 systemd[1]:
fetchmail.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Feb 28 09:13:49
a1 systemd[1]: fetchmail.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
Feb 28 09:13:49 a1 systemd[1]: Failed to start fetchmail.service -
Fetchmail Daemon.
Greetings, Andreas
