After a clean 5.9 install fetchmailconf cannot be used because at the startup screen it crashes when one of the buttons (novice or expert) is pushed, producing the following error: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 12 (X_ConfigureWindow) Value in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 365 Current serial number in output stream: 367 The same error occurs regardless of whether I am logged in as root or as a user.
this is a bug. :) Also, you can install fetchmail ona machine w/ out python and tcl/tk packages installed. There must be a rpm dependency problem that is not picking up the dependency of fetchmailconf on python and tcl/tk
this has been fixed in fetchmail-4.7.0-3. Additionally, fetchmailconf has been broken into a separate package which depends on python and tk.