Re: Fetchmail
>>> # /etc/init.d/fetchmail restart
>>> Restarting mail retriever agent: fetchmailfetchmail: no mailservers
>>> have been specified.
>>> failed!
>>
>> Did you run it as root? and have you entered all the required info in
>> /etc/fetchmailrc?
>>
>>
> Sorry, that took so long. :-( Had been busy.
>
> * Yes I run '/etc/init.d/fetchmail restart' as root and fetchmail daemon
> has been set to run by SysV-init scripts.
> * My /etc/fetchmailrc is empty
> * /home/[USER_ACCOUNT]/.fetchmailrc has:
> set postmaster [USER_ACCOUNT]
> set bouncemail
> set daemon 300
>
You should have the server information in /etc/fetchmailrc not
~/.fetchmailrc if you want to run the program as root.
Jamie
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