Fetchmail as a daemon stays out of the way nicely... fetchmail -d 900. > ---------- > From: Stephen Hoffman[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 8:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] mail help needed > > Fetchmail!! > nothing more then a cron job or daemon...basically create a file in your > home directory called ".fetchmailrc" and add something like this... > > poll mail.bellsouth.net > proto pop3 > user "youruid" > pass "yourpass" > is localaccount > nokeep > fetchall > no ssl > > I then run this as a cron job every 5 minutes (you can also run fetchmail > as a daemon and just have is sleep for 300 seconds) and use IMAP to pick > my mail up. This has worked for every POP and IMAP account I have ever > had. If you want to pick up Hotmail email, I would recommend Gotmail. > Both of these methods preserve the headers (although they add there own > entries) so mail sent to my bellsouth account shows as email that was sent > to my bellsouth account and my hotmail is shown as being addressed to > @hotmail.com. I actually use this to my benefit by sorting with procmail > to get the messages in the right folders. > > HTH > > Steve > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > >
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