Re: specification of mailhost password to fetchmail on command line.

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 29 May, David Karlin wrote about "specification of mailhost password to fetchmail on command line."
>
> There is, however, no mention of the syntax for .fetchmailrc.
>

man fetchmail

 CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES
       Basic format is:

         poll SERVERNAME protocol PROTOCOL username NAME password PASSWORD

> Q1) Is there a way to simply add the password to the command line?

no

> Q2) If not, then where can I find the proper syntax for .fetchmailrc?
> 

The man page, see above.

-- 
Brian 
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