Re: using gotmail with fetchmail

Gotmail will forward your mail to any email address you want, or you
can specify the file (pine folders are mbox flat files). I forward my
hotmail mail to my jameswhite.org account, but I could drop it in
/home/james/mail/hotmailbox or /var/spool/mail/james and it would
append my INBOX.

Here is my ~/.gotmailrc
########### CUT HERE ###############
username=rupert
password=G!l3s
domain=hotmail.com

[email protected]
save-to-login
only-new
delete

# folder-dir=/home/james/mail/hotmailbox
# folders=Inbox, Different Folder
retry-limit=3
########### CUT HERE ###############
(the account and password have been changed in this example )


--------------------------------------------------------------
James S. White                      GAPS Incorporated
[email protected]                Electrical Engineer - Etc.
http://www.jameswhite.org           Caffeine is my anti-drug.
--------------------------------------------------------------
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
                                                               -Jack Handy

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Cloids wrote:

> Ummm...okay I seem to have understood that Fechmail and Gotmail are
> different per say.  So to rephrase my question, how can Pine view the
> mail downloaded by Gotmail.  Or specifically, in what directory does
> gotmail download its mail - is it the same path as where fetchmail puts
> its mail?
>
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:37:13 -0500 (CDT), "James S. White"
> <[email protected]> said:
> > fetchmail and gotmail are two differernt things. fetchmail allows you to
> > download mail from a Post Office Protocol (POP) server and gotmail
> > retrieves
> > your mail from a hotmail account much in the same way fetchmail does
> > (well, not really, but the same as far as the user is concerned)
> >
> > They are both a matter of editing their respective config files,
> > (.fetchmailrc and .gotmailrc) and running them independently.
> >
> > "Using them together" is really just using them seperately, but at the
> > same time.
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > James S. White                      GAPS Incorporated
> > [email protected]                Electrical Engineer - Etc.
> > http://www.jameswhite.org           Caffeine is my anti-drug.
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
> > And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect
> > it.
> >                                                                -Jack
> >                                                                Handy
> >
> > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Cloids wrote:
> >
> > > How can I implement this?  I am farily new to linux so I will appreciate
> > > your help.
> > >
> > > Cloids
> > > --
> > >   Cloids
> > >   [email protected]
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Gotmail-list mailing list
> > > [email protected]
> > > http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gotmail-list
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Gotmail-list mailing list
> > [email protected]
> > http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gotmail-list
> --
>   Cloids
>   [email protected]
>
> --
> http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different…
>
>
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>