[TriLUG] Fetchmail (was: Email rejections)

[Rick DeNatale]

On 7/6/05, lcboyd at nc.rr.com <lcboyd at nc.rr.com> 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 "myEmailAcct at myisp.com" with password "myPwd" is myLocalAcct here
        user "mywifesAcct at myisp" 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.