Re: OT: mail retrieval software

2007-08-01 Thread Ryan McBride 
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:59:23PM +0100, poncenby wrote:
> Grateful if anyone could recommend a mail retrieval program which does 
> not require a local SMTP service like fetchmail does.

How about fetchmail? (with procmail / maildrop / whatever)

poll mailserver protocol imap service 993:
username "mcbride" there has password "mekmitasdigoat" is mcbride here 
fetchall ssl mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -d %T"

Re: OT: mail retrieval software

2007-08-01 Thread Charles Longeau 
Hi,

> Grateful if anyone could recommend a mail retrieval program which does
> not require a local SMTP service like fetchmail does.

>From the fetchmail man page :
   -m  | --mda 
  (Keyword: mda) You can force mail to be  passed  to
  an  MDA directly (rather than forwarded to port 25)
  with the --mda or -m option.

Best regards,

Charles Longeau

Re: OT: mail retrieval software

2007-08-01 Thread Brian Candler 
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:59:23PM +0100, poncenby wrote:
> Grateful if anyone could recommend a mail retrieval program which does 
> not require a local SMTP service like fetchmail does.

>From 'man fetchmail':

   -m  | --mda 
  (Keyword:  mda)  You  can  force  mail  to  be  passed to an MDA
  directly (rather than forwarded to port 25) with the --mda or -m
  option.>   ... snip rest of description ...

Re: OT: mail retrieval software

2007-08-01 Thread Tom 
I highly recommend mail/fdm

On 31/07/07, Andy Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 31/07/07, poncenby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Grateful if anyone could recommend a mail retrieval program which does
> > not require a local SMTP service like fetchmail does.
>
> Try 'getmail'.
>
> -- ach

Re: OT: mail retrieval software

2007-07-31 Thread Andy Hayward 
On 31/07/07, poncenby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Grateful if anyone could recommend a mail retrieval program which does
> not require a local SMTP service like fetchmail does.

Try 'getmail'.

-- ach