Author: Last Man Standing
Email: mike@vu.com
Date Submitted: Thur, Apr 16, 1998
Edited By: Magnus Schoultz da96scma@ing.hj.se
Status: New Entry
Releases: | 5.0 and 4.x |
Platform: | all |
Category: | |
Category Listing: | How do I retrieve my POP or IMAP e-mail? |
fetchmail is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility; it fetches mail from remote mailservers and forwards it to your local (client) machine's delivery system. You can then handle the retrieved mail using normal mail user agents such as elm(1) or Mail(1). The fetchmail utility can be run in a daemon mode to repeatedly poll one or more systems at a specified interval.
- look at "http://www.ccil.org/~esr" for the latest "fetchmail". - put the following into "~/.fetchmailrc": # this is a comment, blank lines are ignored. set batchlimit=0 poll nucleus.com protocol pop3 user mrn pass XXXXXX is root here - "~/.fetchmailrc" _must_ be mode 600. - sendmail has to be running for fetchmail to work correctly.
man fetchmail