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["Tim Penhey" <tim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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