fetchmail problem?

[Gene Heskett <gene heskett verizon net>]

Greetings all;

I am trying to use fetchmail, which for sucking mail is working great, 
dumping it right into the kmail suck dir in /var/spool/mail/$USER.

However, adjust and restart till I'm blue in the face, I cannot make it 
use an alternate mda, such as procmail.  It seemingly ignores the 

default mda /usr/bin/procmail -d gene

line at the top of ~/.fetchmailrc, and if an attempt is made to pass it 
in via the set syntax instead, thats an outright error and fetchmail 
dies, silently.

Similarly that same syntax but with either a -m or a --mda on the 
command line also results in an error abort, reporting the --mda as a 
syntax error even if it is used as a -m like this:
su gene -c "fetchmail -d 90 --fetchmailrc /home/gene/.fetchmailrc 
-m /usr/bin/procmail".

I think I'm doing it right, and according to the manpages.

Do I need a newer fetchmail than can be readily installed on an FC2 
system?  The currently installed fetchmail is:
fetchmail-6.2.5.5-1.fc3

System is however, an FC2 (mostly) system.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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