After rebooting my computer, with no changes to fetchmailrc or the version of fetchmail, I see in syslog: 2023-02-05T11:15:34.903940-05:00 berkeley fetchmail[4457]: The nodetach option is in effect, ignoring logfile option. The file /usr/lib/systemd/user/fetchmail.service has a --nodetach option but removing it (and restarting the fetchmail service)makes no difference and fetchmail still appears running with the --nodetach option in place. It seems for the logfile to work one must restart fetchmail immediately, otherwise the default --nodetach takes effect:FAIL: fetchmail -q ; sleep 5; fetchmailWORK: fetchmail -q ; fetchmail Clarifying this would be useful in the man page or other documentation.
thanks,--jack On Friday, February 3, 2023 at 10:20:36 AM EST, js jb <em2ja...@yahoo.com> wrote: After upgrading to the new fetchmail 6.4.36-1, the problem has been fixed without any change at all to my .fetchmailrc. This bug can now be closed. thanks,--jack