L.C. I did have trouble with .fetchmailrc when I first started using Linux and was told that it needed mode 710, I think by fetchmail itself. That seemed odd to me also. John On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, L. C. Robinson wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, John J. Boyer wrote: > > > I forgot to say that .fetchmailrc must have execute > > mode set. After you create this file do: > > chmod 710 .fetchmail > > Having to have execute permissions on a configuration > file should be suspect. In the unlikely event that > such really turns out to be necessary, one should > suspect that the programmer is a relative neophyte, and > the application is probably pre-alpha quality -- likely > not worth one's time. But fetchmail is one of the > finest pieces of open source out there, led by a > project leader that is famous all over the world, and > not just for his software. So you know that you need > no such permission on that file. I use it all the time > with normal permissions, and have for years. It can > contain passwords, so should not be world readable (and > will refuse to run with bad permissions). So the above > chmod command above probably really only satisfied the > safe read permissions requirement, and the execute bit > is a useless artifact. "chmod 600 ~/.fetchmailrc" > would do as well (I assume the mispelling of the > filename above was a typo). > > And running fetchmail in daemon mode every 15 minutes > is a luxury for those affluent enough for a more or > less dedicated or always-on higher speed connection. > That's the nice thing about fetchmail: it can be > configured to work for you no matter what your > situation, protocol, email providers, userbase, or > network size (up to a certain point for that last). > You can leave out the daemon stuff, and just start > fetchmail up from the command line, whenever you want > to check for mail, or have a cron job run it > automatically at reasonable intervals, perhaps at > night. There are example scripts that come with the > package to fit a variety of situations, in > /usr/share/doc/fetchmail-*/contrib/ on a Red Hat > system. > > LCR > > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list