Author: Last Man Standing
Email: mike@vu.com
Date Submitted: Thur, Apr 16, 1998
Edited By: Magnus Schoultz da96scma@ing.hj.se
Status: New Entry

Releases: 5.0 and 4.x
Platform: all
Category:  Email
Category Listing:  How do I retrieve my POP or IMAP e-mail?

Issue

fetchmail  is  a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility; it
fetches mail from remote mailservers and  forwards  it  to
your  local  (client)  machine's delivery system.  You can
then handle the retrieved  mail  using  normal  mail  user
agents  such  as elm(1) or Mail(1).  The fetchmail utility
can be run in a daemon mode to repeatedly poll one or more
systems at a specified interval.

Response

	- look at "http://www.ccil.org/~esr" for the latest "fetchmail".
	- put the following into "~/.fetchmailrc":

	# this is a comment, blank lines are ignored.
	set batchlimit=0
	poll nucleus.com protocol pop3 user mrn pass XXXXXX is root here

	- "~/.fetchmailrc" _must_ be mode 600.
	- sendmail has to be running for fetchmail to work correctly.

References

man fetchmail