On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 11:25:52 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> AW writes:
>
> > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400
> > Harry Putnam wrote:
> >
> > > Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet:
> > > I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jes
Zenaan Harkness writes:
> Use getmail.
>
> I have used mpop. getmail maintainer lurks around here, so that's what
> I'm planning to use when I next stop pop DLing.
No thanks. Fetchmail should be working. I really doubt that
fetchmail itself is the problem.
And just for
AW writes:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> > Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet:
> > I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie), to a vm running on a
> > windows hosts.
>
> Did you ensure the fetchmail daemon
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:24:06 -0400
AW wrote:
> It's possible you will need to enable the service daemon...
>
> sudo systemctl enable fetchmail
>
> in order for it to start on host boot.
And I forgot about the /etc/default/fetchmail
Make sure START_DAEMON=ye
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400
Harry Putnam wrote:
> Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet:
> I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie), to a vm running on a
> windows hosts.
Did you ensure the fetchmail daemon is running?
ps -A |grep fetchmail
It's pos
Use getmail.
I have used mpop. getmail maintainer lurks around here, so that's what
I'm planning to use when I next stop pop DLing.
They are incredibly faster.
Good luck :)
Zenaan
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I'm having a problem with fetchmail. Something that has not arisen in
some 15 yrs of linux use.
This post is a tad bit verbose... but it seemed necessary to make it
clear why I am somewhat flummoxed.
Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet:
I've been moving my main work host, (Deb
On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 17:19:17 +0200
basti wrote:
Except if it's a production svr, you should consider
upgrade the branch; Lenny is quite outdated (2k9).
> # fetch mails
>
Post the whole conf, nobody can guess what you wrote
until TCP/IP/BRAIN-2-BRAIN isn't stable.
…
> Some mails with a siz
Hello @all,
I run a fetchmail daemon on my router.
Debian Version 5
Fetchmail Version 6.3.9-rc2+GSS+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+NLS+KRB5
My config looks like
# Configuration created Mon Jun 10 11:55:32 2002 by fetchmailconf
#set postmaster "postmaster"
#set bouncemail
#set no spambounce
#set
On Tue 27 May 2014 at 21:53:40 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Oh, and is it really enough just to run `/etc/init.d/exim4 reload'
reload regenerates the configuration and tells exim to reread it. I've
always stuck with using this.
> (after making the edit) or would it be a time to use one or more o
ther than
> > Exim's:
> >
> > https://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4UserFAQ#Exim_stops_delivery_after_ten_messages_are_received
>
> Thanks, and yeah I read that before posting and was sort of amazed at
> the way the burden of getting around what is a quite an unpopular
> defau
Brian writes:
[...]
>> The exim4 FAQ tells of a way to put the load on fetchmail and diddle
>> around with its config, but also says one might change it in exim4 but
>> is not clear about where this change is made.
>
> I put it right at the start of "MAIN CONFIGU
ut testing with your setup does not
> cause any failure when exim4 is reloaded or restarted. I think you
> really should post the error message you get.
>
>> Then I tried adding it to:
>> /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
>
> No. This is the wrong file.
>
>> The
after_ten_messages_are_received
Thanks, and yeah I read that before posting and was sort of amazed at
the way the burden of getting around what is a quite an unpopular
default in exim4 was to shift it to fetchmail. hehe... pretty slick.
I saw how to use the fetchmail trick right off but felt like,
On Tue 27 May 2014 at 13:53:47 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2014 17:41:50 +0100
> Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is a common problem (I remember hitting it myself, once upon a
> > time!) The Debian Exim FAQ recommends changing fetchmail's behaviour,
> > rather than
wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4UserFAQ#Exim_stops_delivery_after_ten_messages_are_received
This reminds me of something I've wanted for a long time.
I'd prefer not to have an MTA anywhere on my LAN. I'm not smart enough
to securely configure an MTA, even if it isn't sendmail. As things
stand, I grab inc
is reloaded or restarted. I think you
really should post the error message you get.
> Then I tried adding it to:
> /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
No. This is the wrong file.
> The exim4 FAQ tells of a way to put the load on fetchmail and diddle
> around with its config, but also s
Hi,
This is a common problem (I remember hitting it myself, once upon a time!)
The Debian Exim FAQ recommends changing fetchmail's behaviour, rather than
Exim's:
https://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4UserFAQ#Exim_stops_delivery_after_ten_messages_are_received
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Harry Putnam wrote:
> I've tried adding this line:
> smtp_accept_queue_per_connection=300
> to /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template which causes a failure when I run
> /etc/init.d/exim4 reload
> (It generates a new conf that exim4 does not accept.
That line looks plausible to me. Where did you add
An exim4 default of accepting no more than 10 messages at one time
when I use fetchmail to download pop3 mail.
"no immediate delivery: more than 10 messages received in one
connection"
Shows up in the mail.log and anything over 10 is stuck in a que and
delived later.
I want to set tha
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> lina:
>>
>> It seems that my fetchmail saved in the
>>
>> :~/Maildir$ ls
>> cur new new.sbd tmp.msf Trash.msfUnsent Messages.msf
>> cur.msf new.msf tmp TrashUnsent Me
lina:
>
> It seems that my fetchmail saved in the
>
> :~/Maildir$ ls
> cur new new.sbd tmp.msf Trash.msfUnsent Messages.msf
> cur.msf new.msf tmp TrashUnsent Messages
This is the "Maildir" format. You probably have a ~/.procmailrc that
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:01:30PM +0800, lina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that my fetchmail saved in the
>
> :~/Maildir$ ls
> cur new new.sbd tmp.msf Trash.msfUnsent Messages.msf
> cur.msf new.msf tmp TrashUnsent Messages
>
>
> I wond
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:15:33AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 24 Jan 2012, lee wrote:
> > Jon Dowland writes:
> >
> > > I'd strongly recommend using something *other* than fetchmail: getmail
> > > or mpop are options.
> >
> > What´s wr
On 24 Jan 2012, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:15:33PM +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
>
> > It's fine if it works for you, but some years ago I had problems
> > authenticting myself to a mail server with fetchmail. I switched to
> > getmail4
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:15:33PM +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> It's fine if it works for you, but some years ago I had problems
> authenticting myself to a mail server with fetchmail. I switched to
> getmail4 and it worked instantly. I can't remember the details now but
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:47 AM, lee wrote:
> Jon Dowland writes:
>
>> I'd strongly recommend using something *other* than fetchmail: getmail
>> or mpop are options.
>
> What´s wrong with fetchmail?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/01/msg01476.html
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On 24 Jan 2012, lee wrote:
> Jon Dowland writes:
>
> > I'd strongly recommend using something *other* than fetchmail: getmail
> > or mpop are options.
>
> What´s wrong with fetchmail?
>
>
It's fine if it works for you, but some years ago I had proble
Jon Dowland writes:
> I'd strongly recommend using something *other* than fetchmail: getmail
> or mpop are options.
What´s wrong with fetchmail?
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Well, for the moment it seems to me that this is the price of
replacing fetchmail - and of "The Unix Way (tm) - do one thing
and do it well&q
Hi,
The problem is the password in .fecthmailrc is not the passeword of your
GMAIL messaging.
For GMAIL, fetchmail is an external application, you must generate another
password that used only by fetchmail!
Now, when fetchmail run, after I can't see my email with my client email
(mutt), w
rotocol imap tracepolls:
> user 'walterhu...@gmail.com', with password '', is walter here
> options ssl
>
> Obviously OP would need to change the server being polled to the POP3
> one, as well as the protocol (though the reason why people want to use
> POP3
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:24:19 +0100, Alex Padoly wrote:
> How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't
> it! How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc. Thanks!
> Regards.
http://en.lmgtfy.com/?q=fetchmail+gmail
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On 21 December 2011 07:26, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
> Just something that might not be obvious in Brian's example: the
> username must always be your complete e-mail address.
I have a feeling the fully-qualified address is only required if it's
a Google Apps (Gmail for your domain) account. I cou
On Tue 20 Dec 2011 at 23:26:38 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Just something that might not be obvious in Brian's example: the
> username must always be your complete e-mail address.
I just have the username. Tried it with justfo...@gmail.com and that
worked too.
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:26:38 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Ma, 20 dec 11, 17:51:10, Brian wrote:
>> On Tue 20 Dec 2011 at 18:24:19 +0100, Alex Padoly wrote:
>>
>> > How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't
>> > it!
>> > How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc.
On Ma, 20 dec 11, 17:51:10, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 20 Dec 2011 at 18:24:19 +0100, Alex Padoly wrote:
>
> > How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't it!
> > How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc.
>
> This what I have as part of my ~/.fetchmailrc
>
> poll pop.
On Tue 20 Dec 2011 at 18:24:19 +0100, Alex Padoly wrote:
> How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't it!
> How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc.
This what I have as part of my ~/.fetchmailrc
poll pop.googlemail.com
protopop3
service 995
user justfo
Hi,
How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't it!
How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc.
Thanks!
Regards.
Alex
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:19:46 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> With the following fetchmail config:
>
> poll protocol imap:
>no dns
> # port 993
>user johann.sp...@alterit.co.za js here password "xxx"
> # ssl
> # sslcertck
> From: jsp...@sun.ac.za
[..]
> fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate
> fetchmail: This means that the root signing certificate (issued for
> /C=US/ST=Someprovince/L=Sometown/O=none/OU=none/CN=localhost/emailAddress=webaster@localhost)
> is not
Johann Spies wrote:
> I get this error message:
> fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate
> fetchmail: This means that the root signing certificate (issued for
> /C=US/ST=Someprovince/L=Sometown/O=none/OU=none/CN=localhost/emailAddress=webaster@loca
With the following fetchmail config:
poll protocol imap:
no dns
# port 993
user johann.sp...@alterit.co.za js here
password "xxx"
# ssl
# sslcertck# Check the certificates
# sslcertpath /etc/ssl/certs # Path to the ce
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On 04/05/2011 03:52 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 09:42:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
I set fetchmail to run from each user's crontab. Thus, each user
feeds their own mail to postfix/spamassassin and then into maildrop
automagically in each user's Maildir.
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 09:42:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/04/2011 07:43 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
> >I'm successfully using fetchmail, procmail, and bogofilter as my user,
> >but I'm looking to set it up system-wide and have some questions.
> >
> >I'
On 04/04/2011 07:43 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
I'm successfully using fetchmail, procmail, and bogofilter as my user,
but I'm looking to set it up system-wide and have some questions.
I'm running an IMAP server with accounts for several family members.
I'd like to scan for spam an
I'm successfully using fetchmail, procmail, and bogofilter as my user,
but I'm looking to set it up system-wide and have some questions.
I'm running an IMAP server with accounts for several family members.
I'd like to scan for spam and file the spam in a "spam" fold
lrhorer wrote:
> I upgraded one of my servers from "Lenny" to "Squeeze", and now
> fetchmail is broken. (This means I cannot retrieve mail, since this
> is my IMAP server.) I'm getting the following error:
>
> unable to log in UID 1000 from UID 115
>
I upgraded one of my servers from "Lenny" to "Squeeze", and now
fetchmail is broken. (This means I cannot retrieve mail, since this is
my IMAP server.) I'm getting the following error:
unable to log in UID 1000 from UID 115
UID 115 is fetchmail's ID and 1000 is
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:27:37 +0300, David Baron wrote:
> I am getting these every five minutes or so:
(...)
Re: Email Errors from Spammers
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/05/msg01115.html
:-)
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I am getting these every five minutes or so:
FROM: SIZE=8814")
2010-06-10 19:00:32 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1]
dropped: too many syntax or protocol errors (last command was "MAIL
And a series like this as well:
Jun 10 15:26:03 dovidhalevi fetchmail[6514]:
Hello List,
I have just install the add-on LookOut : it works great !
I guess that it should be packaged.
thanks,
Jerome
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
On Ter, 08 Dez 2009, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello List,
I use fetchmail to fetch my email around the Internet, exim as local
smtp, and
Thanks for your prompt reply.
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
On Ter, 08 Dez 2009, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello List,
I use fetchmail to fetch my email around the Internet, exim as local
smtp, and Thunderbird to read them:
what is the best Debian way to manage `winmail.dat' files ?
Ther
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:11:22 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> I use fetchmail to fetch my email around the Internet, exim as local
> smtp, and Thunderbird to read them: what is the best Debian way to
> manage `winmail.dat' files ?
That kind of files are usually generated by Outlook
On Ter, 08 Dez 2009, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello List,
I use fetchmail to fetch my email around the Internet, exim as local
smtp, and Thunderbird to read them:
what is the best Debian way to manage `winmail.dat' files ?
There's a Thunderbird extension to read the files. It is lis
Hello List,
I use fetchmail to fetch my email around the Internet, exim as local smtp, and
Thunderbird to read them:
what is the best Debian way to manage `winmail.dat' files ?
Thanks in advance,
Jerome
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On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 06:02:47AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> I am having issue with email, my /var/log/mail.err is full of socket
> errors over the weekend. Tech support said to try fetchmail -v from
> the command line. My problem is, my fetchmailrc file has many
> entries for
I am having issue with email, my /var/log/mail.err is full of socket errors
over the weekend.
Tech 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
idea.. I like that, especially when testing different email programs.
>
> > 2. The ability to pull mail without having kmail running (via a cron job or
> > fetchmail daemon)
> I do that now with fetchmail, it brings it all in to my /var/mail/user
>
> > 3. Text file with re
On 2009-09-01 05:19, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Tue September 1 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
If your "person message store" is an mbox file, then I'd:
this is the part I can't figure out.. I don't have an mbox setup on kmail, I
don't see a way for it to read an mbox folder.. I tried to create an m
On Tue September 1 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> If your "person message store" is an mbox file, then I'd:
this is the part I can't figure out.. I don't have an mbox setup on kmail, I
don't see a way for it to read an mbox folder.. I tried to create an mbox
folder in an account, but I don't see any
On 2009-09-01 04:51, Paul Cartwright wrote:
[snip]
right now, on my system I have icedove, evolution, kmail, and claws, all setup
for my local user. procmail seems to move the mail into an mbox file, and I
haven't figured out how to get any email program to read an mbox folder.
But you see,
On 2009-09-01 04:45, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Tue August 25 2009, Chris Jones wrote:
but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about
my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task..
As another poster hinted, this is another example of the hidden benefits
of c
pull mail without having kmail running (via a cron job or
> fetchmail daemon)
I do that now with fetchmail, it brings it all in to my /var/mail/user
> 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where it
> resides and can back it up and human read it
this I DO like !
On Tue August 25 2009, Chris Jones wrote:
> > but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about
> > my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task..
>
> As another poster hinted, this is another example of the hidden benefits
> of cloning the Microsoft model.
I'm n
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:30:03 -0400
Chris Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300
> > Micha wrote:
>
> > ...
>
> > > 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where
> > > it resides and can back it up and
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:30:03AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300
> > Micha wrote:
>
> > ...
>
> > > 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where
> > > it resides and can back it up
On 2009-08-25 23:30, Chris Jones wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300
Micha wrote:
...
3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where
it resides and can back it up and human read it
As the resident Sylphe
On Tue, Aug 25 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon,24.Aug.09, 20:56:27, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>
>> but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200
>> kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task..
>
> maildir (and procmail too as I hear, but I don't like its
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300
> Micha wrote:
> ...
> > 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where
> > it resides and can back it up and human read it
> As the resident Sylpheed fanboy, I must point out that
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:44:57 +0300
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Ma,25.aug.09, 13:32:21, Micha wrote:
>
> > On the downside, if you want to explicitly pull mail now, pulling
> > mail from kmail doesn't pull the mail off your accounts, you need to
> > do that explicitly from the command line
>
> N
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300
Micha wrote:
> On 8/24/2009 11:34 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote:
> >> Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail
> >
> > I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all m
On 2009-08-25 18:29, Chris Jones wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:02:44PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-08-25 13:55, Chris Jones wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote:
[..]
but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking
about my 200 kmail f
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:02:44PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-08-25 13:55, Chris Jones wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>>
>> [..]
>>> but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking
>>> about my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could
On 2009-08-25 13:55, Chris Jones wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote:
[..]
but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about
my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task..
As another poster hinted, this is another example of
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote:
[..]
> but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about
> my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task..
As another poster hinted, this is another example of the hidden benefits
of cloning the Micr
heed too?) has
configurable "Actions" which you can use to run external
programs/scripts.
> I played around a lot at the time looking for a mail client I'd be
> happy with (Still haven't found one) and worked quite a bit with
> mutt (I'm not sure if it even supports pu
On 8/24/2009 11:34 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote:
Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail
I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail pulls it
all in via my local user. From there I have many, MANY filters to
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 20:56:27, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200
> kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task..
maildir (and procmail too as I hear, but I don't like its syntax) is
*very* powerful. I recently did a major
d add
another program into the mix.
right now I do fetchmail to /var/mail/myuser
kmail picks up the mail, does all the filtering...
when I fire up icedove, it is a totally separate set of folders & emails (
dating back 2 years:)
I'm not sure I understand how I can use procmail to
a la Perl.
>
> what I'm asking is.. will it benefit me to change the way I
> do email and add
> another program into the mix.
> right now I do fetchmail to /var/mail/myuser
> kmail picks up the mail, does all the filtering...
> when I fire up icedove, it is a totally sepa
right now I do fetchmail to /var/mail/myuser
kmail picks up the mail, does all the filtering...
when I fire up icedove, it is a totally separate set of folders & emails (
dating back 2 years:)
I'm not sure I understand how I can use procmail to put mail into filtered
folders that any m
On 2009-08-24 17:11, Kevin Ross wrote:
From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com]
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:35 PM
On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote:
Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail
I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts
> From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:35 PM
>
> On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote:
> > Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail
>
> I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. K
On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote:
> Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail
I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail pulls it
all in via my local user. From there I have many, MANY filters to put mail in
separate folders.
what bene
On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote:
> On the other hand I forgot my password several times (way too many password
> protected accounts each with it's own password restrictions) and it saved
> me that I could just open the file and see the password.
try keepassX, a great little app ( linux & window
On Monday 24 August 2009 07:05:18 Rob Gom wrote:
> I believe that storing passwords encrypted is always
> safer than storing them unencrypted.
Well, then you would be wrong.
I an unattended program can take the bytes stored in the inode(s) and send
your password to your ISP then a program writte
On 8/24/2009 3:05 PM, Rob Gom wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Andrei Popescu
wrote:
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 11:37:53, Rob Gom wrote:
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Ok, so now I see the reasons to move:
1. Power& flexibility:
(if one needs something more than what mail application can offer)
Yes, in many cases
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon,24.Aug.09, 11:37:53, Rob Gom wrote:
>>
[cut]
Ok, so now I see the reasons to move:
1. Power & flexibility:
(if one needs something more than what mail application can offer)
>
> Yes, in many cases it is, but the "separate tools" approa
...
From user's point of view it is something "additional". Instead of
configuring mail setup in single place (MUA, mail program), one has to
set it up both in MUA (retrieve mail from local mail box) and
fetchmail configuration file.
It's not that difficult. Reall
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 11:37:53, Rob Gom wrote:
>
> So? Where's the advantage? My mail program fetches mail *for me* from
> my ISP's POP server, passes it thru any filter (let it be
> spamassassin), then writes it to separate folders depending on
> basically anything. Fe
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 11:37:53, Rob Gom wrote:
>
> Maybe I haven't been understood well. My mail provider gives me a
> password. In mail program I add it to some wallet or let mail program
> to encrypt it after setting up. If I want to use fetchmail, I have to
> write it there in
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-08-23 14:09, Rob Gom wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> could anyone explain to me why fetchmail is needed in the first place?
>
> Now *this* is an excellent flame!
Why do you consider my opinion as flamewar, wherea
On 2009-08-23 14:09, Rob Gom wrote:
Hi all,
could anyone explain to me why fetchmail is needed in the first place?
Now *this* is an excellent flame!
From user's point of view it is something "additional". Instead of
configuring mail setup in single place (MUA, mail program),
Rob Gom writes:
[...]
> Are there any mail programs which allow seamless integration with
> fetchmail/getmail?
If by that you mean allow you to get your mail via POP or IMAP without
editing any configuration files, sure, all of the GUI mail clients do
this: Thunderbird, KMail, Evolutio
Hi all,
could anyone explain to me why fetchmail is needed in the first place?
>From user's point of view it is something "additional". Instead of
configuring mail setup in single place (MUA, mail program), one has to
set it up both in MUA (retrieve mail from local mail
On 2009-08-21 02:18, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,21.Aug.09, 11:43:04, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to
actually work together must be a dark art :)
What's so strange about fetchmail?
I admit
On Fri,21.Aug.09, 11:43:04, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to
> >>>actually work together must be a dark art :)
> >>>
> >>
&
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to
actually work together must be a dark art :)
What's so strange about fetchmail?
I admit this is uninformed, but it seems to me like fetchmail tries to
be many things, bu
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