Bug 162193
Summary: | fetchmailconf tool is absent in sendmail package | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Andy Shevchenko <andy> |
Component: | fetchmail | Assignee: | Miloslav Trmač <mitr> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 4.0 | ||
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2005-07-03 20:30:23 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Andy Shevchenko
2005-06-30 18:39:56 UTC
fetchmailconf is the configuration tool of fetchmail. Assigning to fetchmail. Thanks for your report. As detailed in http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/, adding fetchmailconf within a release of RHEL 4 is out of scope of RHEL enhancement errata. For adding fetchmailconf in future RHEL releases, it should be in a Fedora release. The reasons for not including fetchmailconf there are: * It essentially duplicates a subset of the functionality of full e-mail clients with a GUI, without being a good replacement. fetchmailconf is just an editor for ~/.fetchmailrc without any additional guidance or user-friendliness. Even when using fetchmailconf it is still necessary to refer to the manual page to learn about the meaning of the options that can be set using fetchmailconf. * For a working fetchmail deployment it is necessary to configure a system-wide MTA. Doing this correctly and testing the whole mail setup requires enough expertise to make the advantages of using fetchmailconf negligible. |