[ale] fetchmail -v

[ale at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)]

I am having issue with email, my /var/log/mail.err is full of socket errors 
over the weekend.
Terch support said to try fetchmail -v
from the command line. My problem is, my fetchmailrc file has many entries for 
users, none local, so I don't think I can run fetchmail from the command 
line.

anyone know how to run fetchmail in VERBOSE mode, from the fetchmailrc method?
what I get is:
# fetchmail -v
fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.
fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified.


when I run it as my local user I get:
$ fetchmail -v MAIL_SERVER
Enter password for pbc at MAIL_SERVER: 

pbc is my local user on my box, not my email user..
-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459