Fetchmail

Hello,

Can someone please point me to a multi-drop Fetchmail tutorial.

Thanking you
Q

 

What exactly do you want to do? Does this one help you? http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5679&highlight=/etc/fetchmailrc

 

Hi falko, thanks for you reply...

My objective is to retrieve mail from a catch-all account on a remote server and let my mail server distribute them to the individual mailboxes.

Hope that make sense. I will have a look at that link you have provided.

PS. This is my first attemp at fetchmail.

Thanking you,
Quinton

 

You can use the above link to fetch the mails from the remote server. But I'm not quite sure how to split up the mails and distribute them to independent mailboxes...

 

catch all setup is below

defaults
no dns
envelope Delivered-To:
set postmaster "catchalltypeguy"
poll mail.pop3serverhere.com
localdomains yourlocaldomain.com
proto pop3
user "username"
pass "pass"
to *
fetchall

The above works fine for a catch allpop3 acc email is then sorted on the local server the important bit is the to *

 

thanks guys...

platd do you mind explaining it from scratch, ex. the location to create this file.

Quinton

 

It goes into /etc/fetchmailrc.

 

hi falko

I'm not quite clear on this... others say I should create the fetcmailrc in my home directory for example: /home/user/.fetchmailrc

Or should I leave it as /etc/fetchmailrc because it's mail meant for multiple local users?

PS. distro = FC5

Thanks
Quinton

 

Put it into /etc/fetchmailrc.