On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 08:31:51AM +0200, David Haller wrote
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> And you _should_ use TLS, IMHO! E.g.: sslproto 'TLS1.3+'
>
> See 'man fetchmail', search for '\-\-sslproto'.
It looks like I was being too specific and micro-managing things.
Like Captain Picard, simply say "Make it so", and let it figure things
out for itself. What finally worked, including handoff to procmail, was
poll ########### protocol pop3:
username "############" password "########" is "########" here
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -m ~/.mailfilter/.procmailrc":
According to the manpage, "fetchmail --version" gives "dry-run"
diagnostics. In my test case, it says...
Taking options from command line and /home/########/.fetchmailrc
Idfile is /home/########/.fetchids
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to ########.
Options for retrieving from ########################:
True name of server is ###########.
Protocol is POP3.
All available authentication methods will be tried.
SSL server certificate checking enabled.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush off).
Oversized messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--limitflush
off).
Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
Carriage-return stripping is enabled (stripcr on).
Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits off).
MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
Fetch message size limit is 100 (--fetchsizelimit 100).
Do binary search of UIDs during 3 out of 4 polls (--fastuidl 4).
Messages will be delivered with "/usr/bin/procmail -m
~/.mailfilter/.procmailrc".
Single-drop mode: 1 local name recognized.
No UIDs saved from this host.
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Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
