On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Damian Kohlfeld wrote: > >> Use the following fetchmail configuration as a template. Replace all > > It goes in ~/.fetchmailrc ? > The command is just > fetchmail > ? > >> USERNAME with your unix user account name, all PASSWORD with the password >> for that IMAP account, all IMAPUSER with the IMAP username, all MAILHOST >> with the IMAP serverhostname and finally all MBOXPATH your mbox (absolute) >> filenames. >> >> --- BEGIN CONFIG --- >> >> set postmaster "USERNAME" >> set bouncemail >> set no spambounce >> set softbounce >> set properties "" >> set no showdots >> >> poll MAILHOST with proto IMAP >> user 'IMAPUSER' there with password 'PASSWORD' is 'USERNAME' here > > If I omit password 'PASSWORD' it will prompt? Please forget I asked about password. There is more important information I need before I can type fetchmail without fear and trepidation. >> options keep fetchall ssl mda "formail -c >> /MBOXPATH/inbox" >> folder INBOX > > "formail -c >> /MBOXPATH/inbox" > is a shell command, > the target is a plain file which need not already exist? > what is the affect of > folder INBOX > ? > >> poll MAILHOST with proto IMAP >> user 'IMAPUSER' there with password 'PASSWORD' is 'USERNAME' here >> options keep fetchall ssl mda "formail -c >> /MBOXPATH/sent" >> folder INBOX.Sent > > Now I'm really confused. > It looks to me like this would do the same thing again > only with different targets on the client side. Such as what the script is supposed to do. Had I thought I knew before, the second poll would have persuaded me otherwise. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
