fetchmail problem in Fedora7

megerdin · 07-11-2007, 10:11 AM

hi
I just istall Fedora7 in my PC. I want to configure fetchmail. But the problem is there is no fetchmail configuration file in my pc.like /etc/fetchmail/...
But i install fetchmail-6.3.4-1.1 properly.

when I wrote
whereis fetchmail

[root@Server1 conf]# whereis fetchmail
fetchmail: /usr/bin/fetchmail /usr/share/man/man1/fetchmail.1.gz

and nothing more.

Is there anything wrong OR any other suggestion plz.
I m waiting to configure fetchmail.

thanks

bsdunix · 07-11-2007, 10:45 AM

Create a .fetchmailrc (.netrc is an alternate) file in your $HOME directory and use this as an example:

Code:

poll pop.provider.net protocol pop3 username "jsmith" password "secret1"

CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-man.html#40

http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-man.html#13

Since your putting a cleartext password in the file, you should set the proper permissions on it.

Code:

$ chmod 600 $HOME/.fetchmailrc

This will allow only the owner to read and write to it.

lord-fu · 07-11-2007, 10:56 AM

Also whereis only locates, the binarys, man pages and source for something it does not locate configuration files. You need locate for that. You may need to run updatedb as well before using locate. You can use shell globbing with locate as well. Basic example:

Code:

locate fetchmail

Hope it helps some.