In response to #3:
It seams the reason why purging fetchmail and again installing it will
make fetchmail work is rooted in /etc/init.d/fetchmail (Jaunty). The new
fetchmail system user is given "/bin/sh" as shell instead of
"/bin/false".
if ! id $USER >/dev/null 2>&1; then
if [ "$USER" = "fetchmail" ]; then
# The fetchmail user might have been removed when the
fetchmail-common
# package is purged. We have to re-add it here so the
system-wide
# daemon will run.
adduser --system --ingroup nogroup --home /var/lib/fetchmail \
--shell /bin/sh --disabled-password fetchmail
>/dev/null 2>&1 || true
--
can't run fetchmail at startup
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336847
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