John Summerfield <summer(_at_)os2(_dot_)ami(_dot_)com(_dot_)au> writes:
I had a syntax error in .fetchmailrc. The diagnostic messages was "syntax
error
in line 15."
Line 15 was a comment. The line with the error was the fifteenth line when I
ran
this command:
egrep -v '^#' .fetchmailrc | cat -n
Fetchmail should count lines before dropping comments (and blank lines).
Euhm, my fetchmail DOES count comments:
$ head -2 .fetchmailrc
# some comment
erroneousstatement
$ fetchmail
fetchmail:/home/ma/.fetchmailrc:2: parse error at erroneousstatement
But fetchmail does not have a message like "syntax error in line", I
grepped for this string in vain.
Are you using the current version?
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Matthias Andree