Re: [aclug-L] Postilion

[Nate Bargmann <ka0rny@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jesse Kaufman wrote:

> college?  also, what exactly will fetchmail let me do?  i hear people
> talk all the time about procmail as a filter, does that work w/
> fetchmail?  

Fetchmail is a simple mail retrieval utility that can be run from the
command line or in daemon mode.  When it retrieves mail from your server
it hands it to your MTA, sendamil, smail, qmail, whichever, and then its
job is done.  The MTA will pass to a local delivery agent, such as
Procmail or the mail.local that comes with Sendmail, which then deposits
your mail into your mailbox(s) that your MUA, Mail User Agent--pine,
elm, Netscape, etc., can read.

I have script I use to start my ppp connection and each time it runs,
fetchmail is started in daemon mode like this:

fetchmail -s -a -K -d 300

-s is silent (helps keep the log file small after debugging)
-a is get all messages
-K is delete messages on the server
-d 300 puts fetchmail in daemon mode and it checks for mail every five
minutes.

The host configuration is in ~.fetcmailrc and is quite simple for a
standard POP3 connection.

In my ppp shutdown script I kill the fetchmail daemon like so:

-- fetchmail --quit

You can find more information at the Fetchmail homepage:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/

- Nate >>

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