On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Damian Kohlfeld wrote:
> Use the following fetchmail configuration as a template. Replace all
It goes in ~/.fetchmailrc ?
The command is just
fetchmail
?
> USERNAME with your unix user account name, all PASSWORD with the password
> for that IMAP account, all IMAPUSER with the IMAP username, all MAILHOST
> with the IMAP serverhostname and finally all MBOXPATH your mbox (absolute)
> filenames.
>
> --- BEGIN CONFIG ---
>
> set postmaster "USERNAME"
> set bouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set softbounce
> set properties ""
> set no showdots
>
> poll MAILHOST with proto IMAP
> user 'IMAPUSER' there with password 'PASSWORD' is 'USERNAME'
here
If I omit password 'PASSWORD' it will prompt?
Please forget I asked about password.
There is more important information I need before I can
type fetchmail without fear and trepidation.
> options keep fetchall ssl mda "formail -c >>
/MBOXPATH/inbox"
> folder INBOX
"formail -c >> /MBOXPATH/inbox"
is a shell command,
the target is a plain file which need not already exist?
what is the affect of
folder INBOX
?
> poll MAILHOST with proto IMAP
> user 'IMAPUSER' there with password 'PASSWORD' is 'USERNAME'
here
> options keep fetchall ssl mda "formail -c >> /MBOXPATH/sent"
> folder INBOX.Sent
Now I'm really confused.
It looks to me like this would do the same thing again
only with different targets on the client side.
Such as what the script is supposed to do.
Had I thought I knew before,
the second poll would have persuaded me otherwise.
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Optimist: The glass is half full.
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