Author: esr Date: 2008-12-27 10:41:15 +0000 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) New Revision: 24796
Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/freemail.php Log: Added a tested recipe for fetching freemail via fetchmail. Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/freemail.php =================================================================== --- trunk/website/pages/en/freemail.php 2008-12-27 05:28:03 UTC (rev 24795) +++ trunk/website/pages/en/freemail.php 2008-12-27 10:41:15 UTC (rev 24796) @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ send and receive emails through Freenet. For this we recommend that you setup your favorite email client. </p> -<p>The settings for the email client, illustrated below with the +<p>The settings for the email client, illustrated below with fetchmail and the Firefox-bundled Thunderbird email client, must be setup with the following settings:</p> @@ -178,6 +178,23 @@ <p>Remember that the Freemail.jar program needs to be running whilst you are reading and sending freemails.</p> +<h3>fetchmail</h3> + +<p>You can easily make <a +href="http://fetchmail.berlios.de/";>fetchmail</a> poll your freenet +mail with an entry like this:</p> + +<pre> +poll freenet via localhost with proto imap port 3143 + user LOCALNAME here is IMAPNAME there with password PASSWORD +</pre> + +<p>This will cause Freemail mail to be automatically fetched and merrged into +your normal incoming mail stream, so any of your email clients will see it. +Of course, you will need to change IMAPNAME and PASSWORD to match the +authetication pair you gave when you created the Freemail account, and LOCALNAME +to the local login you want to receive the mail.</p> + <h3>Thunderbird</h3> <p>If you use Thunderbird as your email client:</p> _______________________________________________ cvs mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvs
