* Roger Price <[email protected]> | On Mon, 17 Aug 2026, Michel Verdier wrote: > | > What is your version ? Here I have fetchmail 6.4.39-1 > | rprice@titan ~ apt show fetchmail | Package: fetchmail | Version: 6.4.39-1 > | > And man fetchmail or fetchmailrc shows : | > GENERAL OPERATION | > Command-line options override ~/.fetchmailrc declarations. > | When I started to write the message, I had not yet understood that | « Command-line options override ~/.fetchmailrc declarations » means that Debian | 13 replaces ~/.fetchmailrc with /etc/fetchmailrc .
That might be true for the root user, but my stock version of fetchmail on Debian-13 (also 6.4.39-1) definitely uses my (non-root-user) ~/.fetchmailrc. R'

