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Bug#1129245: fetchmail: Fail to start with systemd

From	László Böszörményi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#1129245: fetchmail: Fail to start with systemd
Date	2026-04-03 17:30 +0200
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Hi,

On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 3:45 AM Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> wrote:
> After the last upgrade :
>
> ,----
> | $ sudo service fetchmail start
> | Failed to start fetchmail.service: Unit fetchmail.service not found.
> `----
 Yup, systemd no longer supports service start / stop via initscripts.
Default for fetchmail also changed from system wide start to per user
support.
You need to copy your /etc/fetchmailrc to ~/.fetchmailrc
Enable the service with systemctl --user enable fetchmail
For the first time start it with systemctl --user start fetchmail

I'm not sure if upstream (added as Cc) would like to restore system
wide use. As noted, Arch Linux has an example for that. @Matthias,
what's your opinion on this?
I've currently lost my IMAP / POP email access, but I'm going to set
up a test environment at least.

Cheers,
Laszlo/GCS
[1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fetchmail

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