Fetchmail is pretty straightforward, but here's a head start :-)
# /home/*/.fetchmailrc
defaults proto POP3 fetchall nokeep
poll pop3.ISPserver.com
user [EMAIL PROTECTED] is systemuser pass secret
the first line offers options for one or more accounts; I
actually check two accounts, but have listed one as an example.
POP3 is the protocal, retrieve all messages (new or old)
and don't keep them on the server; I used 'keep' until I got it
working.
On the next line, check this email server (it's the POP3 server.)
On the last line I have 'user' followed by my user name,
and then (because my login on my linux box) is different from my
email address, I tell fetchmail 'email is user' or mail to
my email address should be routed to the login name on my linux
box.
You could follow this with further lines like:
poll pop3.anywhere.com
user [EMAIL PROTECTED] is rks pass secret
to poll additional mail servers.
You'd then want to look into procmail :-)
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000807 05:10]:
> Actually if you have fetchmail installed then you can write your own
> .fetchmailrc in your home directory.
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 13:20:22 -0700
> > From: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: installing sendmail
> >
> > At 01:58 PM 8/5/00 -0700, davidturetsky wrote:
> > >I too have been trying to grope my way through sendmail. Yes it was
> > >installed with my system at /usr/sbin, but there is no file .fetchmailrc or
> > >sendmail.cf
> > >
> > >I wonder if I shouldn't download a fresh copy and (re)install it
> >
> > Bet you're wrong. You run Debian, yes? The default mailer for Debian is
> > exim, not sendmail. It sets up a symlink "sendmail" that points to exim (any
> > MTA does that, because way too many applications assume that name for the
> > system's MTA to let them do anything else).
> >
> > Since fetchmail is a separate application, neither exim nor genuine sendmail
> > would create any .fetchmailrc files. Try installing fetchmail.*.deb and
> > fetchmailconf.*.deb for this. (I assume you know how to use apt-get by now.)
> >
> > Instead of sendmail.cf, you want to look for /etc/exim.conf (or, easier, run
> > /usr/sbin/eximconfig).
> >
> > >David
> > >
> > [old stuff deleted]
> >
> >
> > --
> > ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> > Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
> > Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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