[CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Davy Leon
Hi folks This question is about fetchmail running on my Centos 5.3 box. I need to fetch my email from different accounts living on remote servers and drop it on my local mailbox. The question is wich way is faster for fetchmail... using POP3 or IMAP? Thanks David

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Bo Lynch
On Fri, December 18, 2009 10:29 am, Davy Leon wrote: Hi folks This question is about fetchmail running on my Centos 5.3 box. I need to fetch my email from different accounts living on remote servers and drop it on my local mailbox. The question is wich way is faster for fetchmail... using

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Davy Leon
- Original Message - From: Brian Mathis brian.mat...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Davy Leon d...@scu.escambray.com.cu wrote: Hi folks This question

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Scot P. Floess
? Thanks for your answer David - Original Message - From: Brian Mathis brian.mat...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Davy Leon d

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Brian Mathis
[Top post moved to bottom] On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Davy Leon d...@scu.escambray.com.cu wrote: - Original Message - From: Brian Mathis brian.mat...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Scot P. Floess
, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Davy Leon d...@scu.escambray.com.cu wrote: - Original Message - From: Brian Mathis brian.mat...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:29 AM

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Brian Kirkman
Davy Leon wrote: Hi folks This question is about fetchmail running on my Centos 5.3 box. I need to fetch my email from different accounts living on remote servers and drop it on my local mailbox. The question is wich way is faster for fetchmail... using POP3 or IMAP? Thanks David

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Scot P. Floess
:27 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Davy Leon d...@scu.escambray.com.cu wrote: Hi folks This question is about fetchmail running on my Centos 5.3 box. I need to fetch my email from different accounts living on remote servers and drop it on my local

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:55:54AM -0500, Scot P. Floess wrote: You can definitely use the -f option to fetchmail. But the neat thing is, you can supply multiple accounts - and multiple local users. For me I supply 2 different pop servers and one local user - works great. Yup, this is my

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:05:17AM -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: You may notice that in the OPs 1st reply that the requirement is to retrieve multiple accounts *at the same time* to increase speed. AFAIK, if you use 1 file with fetchmail it will retrieve messages sequentially from each account.

[CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Stephen Harris wrote: You can always run multiple copies of fetchmail in the background if you want parallel fetching or run just one tenth of those RC files (when well numbered) present each time a script is invoked, if you are not in a hurry to retrieve email from