On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 12:01:02PM +0200, Matthias Hanft wrote > Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > Would "fetchmail" work as a drop-in replacement for getmail here? Are > > there any better, simpler solutions? > > I don't know "getmail", but "fetchmail" runs here since 10 years > without any problems. Just put a line like > > poll securepop.t-online.de proto pop3 > user "mail@there", with password "pass@there", is "mail@here" here, > ssl; > > into /etc/fetchmailrc, adjust polling_period="300" in > /etc/conf.d/fetchmail, and that's it. (Of course, the usual > stuff like "/etc/init.d/fetchmail start" and "rc-update > add fetchmail default".)
I'd prefer to launch manually as required. According to weboage https://calomel.org/fetchmailrc.html I can set up $HOME/.fetchmailrc I want to pull email from my local ISP and from 3 other (remote) servers. Notes: 1) I want to run in "single-drop mode". 2) I do *NOT* want bouncing under any circumstances. 3) My procmail script (built up over the years) decides which local inbox an individual email goes to. Here's a first attempt at a ~/.fetchmailrc. I'll have to insert correct names later... ======================================================================== set logfile fetchmail.log poll inmail.myisp.com proto POP3 user "remote_username" pass "PASSWORD=" is "local_username" preconnect "date >> fetchmail.log" #ssl fetchall no keep no rewrite mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F"; set logfile fetchmail.log poll inmail.server2.com proto POP3 user "remote_username" pass "PASSWORD=" is "local_username" preconnect "date >> fetchmail.log" ssl fetchall no keep no rewrite mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F"; set logfile fetchmail.log poll inmail.server3.com proto POP3 user "remote_username" pass "PASSWORD=" is "local_username" preconnect "date >> fetchmail.log" ssl fetchall no keep no rewrite mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F"; set logfile fetchmail.log poll inmail.server4.com proto POP3 user "remote_username" pass "PASSWORD=" is "local_username" preconnect "date >> fetchmail.log" ssl fetchall no keep no rewrite mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F"; ======================================================================== -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
