On Thursday 26 February 2026 at 16:19:14, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:

> For installation of excalabur on a SSD, I cannot run fetchmail
> even though files were copied over from the working excalibur
> system that I am presently using.
>
> When I run "$ fetchmail -c I get error
> "fetchmail:home/haines/.fetchmail:7:symtax error at sslproto"
>
> The '7" here puzzles me.

I would say that is the line number in the file .fetchmail which is being
objected to.

> The ssl line in .fetchmailrc reads " sslproto '' " It is
> copied exactly from present working .fetchmailrc.

So, do you have two files? One named .fetchmail and the other named
.fetchmailrc?

You have told us what is in .fetchmailrc, but the error message refers to
.fetchmail

Antony.

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