wow, thanks! This surely will be useful if i go on and switch to QMT. Thanks a lot for your explanation. Sergio
-----Original Message----- From: Jake Vickers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] POP collect howto 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/).
