[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#374511: fetchmail: no need to get all excited about .netrc

Dan Jacobson jidanni at jidanni.org
Mon Jun 19 17:33:11 UTC 2006


Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.4-1
Severity: wishlist

Man page says: We recommend stashing account/password pairs in your
$HOME/.netrc file, where they can be used not just by fetchmail but by
ftp(1) and other programs.

Sounds great. There should be a way of telling fetchmail the location
of the .netrc file one wants to read, other than
/var/lib/fetchmail/.netrc .

But I guess that wouldn't help much, as user "fetchmail" doesn't have
permission to read other people's .netrc files. So never mind.

Perhaps mention this in README.Debian.gz.




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