It'd be nice if fetchmail-mode.el was installed under
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp (and autoloads in /etc/emacs/site-start.d)
ready for use.

You perhaps know that doesn't create a dependency on emacs, it's just a
matter of chucking files in directories.  (And I can't see anything
particularly in need of byte-compiling, if you didn't want to bother
with that.)

Hi Kevin,
* Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> [2008-06-01 04:05]:
[...]

I'm not going to autoload it but putting it in the site-lisp
directory sounds like a good idea to me.

Kind regards
nico

Nico Golde <nion@debian.org> writes:

You should put an autoload so M-x fetchmail-mode works, but if you mean
auto-mode-alist then I guess that could be optional.  The code seems
modest, even minimal, so enabled by default wouldn't take you into
anything really weird.  Possible startup file below; comment out the
auto-mode-alist if you decide against it.