Re: [TCLUG:4777] Can This Be Done?

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

fetchmail can retrieve all e-mail from one account and put it in a users
inbox -- I think it must be run as root to do this.

Have /root/.fetchmailrc be:

poll pop.isp.com proto pop3 user username1 pass password is email1
poll pop.isp2.com proto pop3 user username2 pass password is soneonelese


Then just call fetchmail (fetchamail -a -d 300) from /etc/ppp/if-up
and fetchmail -q from /etc/ppp/ip-down


For imap, redhat has an imapd program by default but it is insecure and I
think I had other problems with it -- I've compiled IMAP4rev1 to have the
inbox at /var/spool/mail/$username whereas the default was ~/mail or
something like that. If you want it, e-mail me.

I did a similar setup for a small company, so e-mail me if you have any
questions.


On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Paul Hocker wrote:

> Ok,
> 
> This is what I want to do at home. I currently have a Linux server for
> Internet connections, file serving. What I want to do next is have it go to
> my ISP, retrieve our e-mail and store it on the Linux server. Then I would
> like to access that e-mail from any OS on my HOME netrowk using IMAP, NOT
> POP (ie, I want the e-mail data to be on the server AT ALL TIMES). I have
> just begun to look into doing this and was wondering if anybody else has,
> and if they have any suggestions or tips. Can fetchmail do this?
> 
> Thanks all,
> Paul.
> 
> 
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