Re: fetchmail

[Bert Riding <reriding@xmission.com>]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2022 22:50:01 +0200, Gerard ROBIN wrote:

> Hello,
> in Bullseye (stable) fetchmail works fine, but in Bookworm (testing) I
> get:
> 
> fetchmail: can't accept options while a background fetchmail is running.
> argc = 5, arg list:
> arg 1 = "-k"
> arg 2 = "--ssl"
> arg 3 = "--mda"
> arg 4 = "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
> 
> No mail arrived since ....
> 
> ps ax | grep fetchmail
> 
> 1943 ?        Ss     0:00 fetchmail --nodetach --daemon 300
> 4220 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep fetchmail
> 
> how can i prevent the fetchmail daemon from running on startup in
> Bookworm ?


Fetchmail can now run as a daemon, started by systemd.  I think maybe the real 
solution for this problem is

systemctl --user stop fetchmail.service
systemctl --user disable fetchmail.service

and so on.

Bert