On 7/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for all the information about Fetchmail :) I wanted to read up on
> it and came across esr's page on it - anything he makes has got to be
> good! However, his page was information overload for me. Is there a
> simpler "newbie" tutorial out there that you would recommend? Or is this
> truly something I should just start in daemon mode and let it run?
>
> Lisa B.
Lisa,
Fetchmail was probably one of the first, if not the first, thing I
configured on my linux system. I've been running it in daemon mode
ever since and it faithfully fetches both my wife's and my mail from
my isp.
Here's my sanitized /etc/fetchmail/,fetchmailrc
set postmaster "postmaster"
set bouncemail
defaults
smtpaddress "localhost"
poll your.isps.mailserver.here proto auto
user "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with password "myPwd" is myLocalAcct here
user "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with password "herPwd" is herLocalAcct here
A google on fetchmail howto turned this up as the first hit
http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/fetchmail.php
This is a very brief "howto" which gets to the meat of the
feature-rich fetchmail.
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