On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:18:45 -0400 Philip Webb <[email protected]> wrote:
> RTFM : front + centre it says to try 'fetchmail -vvv --nodetach > --nosyslog'. That immediately told me the very non-obvious but > crucial information : " ~/.fetchmail must have no more permissions > than 700". Whyever ? That's quite normal actually. The file might contain passwords and you don't want every joker on the system reading them. It *really* should have printed that warning to the console though. -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
