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The preferred way to set up fetchmail is to write a .fetchmailrc file in your home directory (you may do this directly, with a text editor, or indirectly via fetchmailconf). When there is a conflict between the command-line arguments and the arguments in this file, the command-line arguments take precedence.

To protect the security of your passwords, your ~/.fetchmailrc may not normally have more than 0600 (u=rw,g=,o=) permissions; fetchmail will complain and exit otherwise (this check is suppressed when --version is on).