fetchmail configuration

Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by lola, May 10, 2005.

  1. lola

    lola New Member

    I've installed fetchmail, but I'm noot too sure about its configuration (i.e., what goes into /etc/fetchmailrc). What I want to do is this: I want to fetch my emails from my ISP's POP3 server, and I want to put these emails into the mailbox of the user "lola" on my local Linux machine...
     
  2. deedee

    deedee New Member

    /etc/fetchmailrc:

    Code:
    set postmaster  root
    
    set no bouncemail                # avoid loss on 4xx errors
                                    # on the other hand, 5xx errors get
                                    # more dangerous...
    
    ##########################################################################
    # Hosts to poll
    ##########################################################################
    
    # Defaults ===============================================================
    # Set antispam to -1, since it is far safer to use that together with
    # no bouncemail
    defaults:
    timeout 300
    antispam -1
    batchlimit 100
    
    poll your-isps-pop-server.com protocol POP3 user "your_username" there with password "your_password" is lola here fetchall
    You have to replace your-isps-pop-server.com, your_username and your_password with your own values.
     

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