Can't get fetchmail daemon to start at boot

[davepass]

I am running fetchmail 6.3.6 on Ubuntu.

Here is my .fetchmailrc:

set daemon 10
#set logfile "/var/log/fetchmail.log"

defaults:
        uidl
        keep


poll mail.mydomain.com proto pop3 user
        "dave+mydomain.com" password "xxxxxx",
        is "dave" here;

When I check System -> Administration -> Services, Fetchmail is on the list of services to start at boot.

But for some reason, fetchmail does not begin to run until I manually run

fetchmail -d 10

Any ideas on what I may be missing?

[aliaseer]

I think you need to place a script in /etc/init.d/ that starts the fetchmail daemon.
Depending on your system you might also need to run something like "update-rc.d" (update-rc.d is available to debian and probably debian-based distros. If you've got a fedora or slackware or something else, I wouldn't know).
Maybe you could try "apropos update | grep -i init" and see what comes up.
Hope that helps.