Re: retrieving isp email to internal server

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:40:28PM +0800, Daniel Tan wrote:
> so do u have any sample script files i can use? am a newbie in fetchmail....
> currently i only know this command...
> fetchmail -u "username" -p POP3 -s server.johndoe.com

See fetchmailconf. It is a GUI front end for fetchmail that works
quite well. It is not included in the RH 8.0 fetchmail package. It is
included in the RPM package from ESR's site. You should get the latest
version from ESR's site anyway.


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles A. Crayne" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 1:46 PM
> Subject: Re: retrieving isp email to internal server
> 
> 
> On 07 Jul 2003 00:19:46 -0400
> "Scot L. Harris" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> :Believe you want to get fetchmail setup.  I have not done this yet but I
> :believe fetchmail will let you collect email from one system and store
> :it on your machine.  The users would then connect to your system with
> :POP3 (or something similar) to pull their email.
> :
> 
> In fact, this is exactly how I have my system set up. I use cron to trigger
> fetchmail. It works quite well.

Set it to run in daemon mode. That way you avoid the overhead of cron.

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