[fetchmail]daemon prob fedora core 3

[Harry Iawatha]

sigh.

I installed what yum could find ..

"This is fetchmail release 6.2.5+IMAP-GSS+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+INET6+NLS
Fallback MDA: (none)"

Same problem.  If I start in in demon mode it polls
but doesn't find new mails at the server.  If I stop
it and restart it it finds new mails when started
but then doesn't find any ones after that.

is this 6.2.5-6 ?

If not where can I get the rpm from please ?

Harry


> 
>> FC3 includes an RPM for fetchmail, currently 6.2.5-6. Why
>> compile it unless you need special configuration options?
> 
> 
> hmmmm .. good question.  I may have assumed it
> wasnt there without looking or maybe it wasn't
> (I built it a good few months ago now and only
> just got around to using it in earnest and
> I can't remember).
> 
> Thanks for your mail.  I'll re-install
> that from the repositories and give it a whirl.
> 
> If it works out of the fc3 box tho but not
> on a standard source build then something is
> awry on some configuration front somewhere.
> I'm new'ish to fc3 but I do like things to
> build without being from the "official"
> repository - never had this trouble
> with slackware for a good few years.
> Hope it was a sensible decision to run
> with fc.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Harry
> 
> 
>>
>>> but can get no joy.  The only way I can get
>>> it to work is by using crontab with a script
>>> that kills any existing daemon then runs one
>>> with "-d 0" (which sometimes terminates and
>>> sometimes doesn't - hence the kill).
>>>
>>> I can't find anything sensible on the web on this.
>>> Is there a version that works with FC3 ?  It seems
>>> overkill to use cron.
>>
>>
>>
>> I run in daemon mode with no difficulty, works like
>> a champ. From $HOME/.fetchmailrc:
>>
>> set logfile /home/<user>/.fetchmail.log
>> set postmaster "root"
>> set daemon 480
>> poll <server> with proto POP3 auth password
>>        user "<user>" there with password "<passwd>" is <user> here
>>        and ssl
>>
>>
> 
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