Sergio Minini {NETKEY} wrote:
Jake,
could you please tell a bit more?
Thanks!
Sergio
Sure. fechmail was a program written for back in the old dial-up days -
you would configure your system to dial up and have fetchmail grab your
various email accounts and deliver them to the mail system on your local
machine. It's grown into other areas and continues to solve issues like
this from time to time.
Basically fetchmail will grab from any mailhost it can talk to (POP3,
IMAP, etc.) which you configure using a config file (.fetchmailrc).
Here's an edited example of one that I used to use to grab my wife's
Rollins College email and deliver it to her account on my QMT machine
before she graduated and we started paying back the loan:
set postmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
set syslog
poll gw.rollins.edu protocol imap authenticate password
user "her_rollins_username"
password "her_rollins_password"
is "her_qmt_username" # leave off the @domain part
smtpaddress v2gnu.com
that would log into her Rollins IMAP account, download any new messages
and the deliver them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] when the fetmail
command was called during a cron.
There are ways of running the incoming mail through a
maildrop/mailfilter script but that was more than I needed for this
simple application.
Hope that helps some. Here's fetchmail's website
(http://fetchmail.berlios.de/).
