fetchmail-5.0.0

Description

fetchmail is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility; it fetches mail from remote mailservers and forwards it to your local (client) machine's delivery system. You can then handle the retrieved mail using normal mail user agents such as elm(1) or Mail(1). The fetchmail utility can be run in a daemon mode to repeatedly poll one or more systems at a specified interval.

The fetchmail program can gather mail from servers supporting any of the common mail-retrieval protocols: POP2, POP3, IMAP2bis, and IMAP4. It can also use the ESMTP ETRN extension. (The RFCs describing all these protocols are listed at the end of this manual page.)

While fetchmail is primarily intended to be used over on demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections), it may also be useful as a message transfer agent for sites which refuse for security reasons to permit (sender-initiated) SMTP transactions with sendmail.

As each message is retrieved fetchmail normally delivers it via SMTP to port 25 on the machine it is running on (localhost), just as though it were being passed in over a normal TCP/IP link. The mail will then be delivered locally via your system's MDA (Mail Delivery Agent, usually sendmail(8) but your system may use a different one such as smail, mmdf, exim, or qmail). All the delivery control mechanisms (such as .forward files) normally available through your system MDA and local delivery agents will therefore work.

If the program fetchmailconf is available, it will assist you in setting up and editing a fetchmailrc configuration. It runs under X and requires that the language Python and the Tk toolkit be present on your system. If you are first setting up fetchmail for single-user mode, it is recommended that you use Novice mode. Expert mode provides complete control of fetchmail configuration, including the multidrop features. In either case, the `Autoprobe' button will tell you the most capable protocol a given mailserver supported, and warn you of potential problems with that server.

Configuration

Example
POP3 Server	pop3.grape-info.com
User Accont Name	hogeuser
Password	hogepassword

Make ~/.fetchmailrc

poll POP Server Name
proto Protocol
user User Account Name
pass Password

Example

poll pop3.grape-info.com
proto POP3
user hogeuser
pass hogepassword
change file permission

$ chmod 0600 ~/.fetchmailrc

Your mail messages are comming your e-mail spool
Run in cron mode
To run fetchmail in cron mode

$ crontab -e
This downloads messages every 15 minutes

0-59/15 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -s

Run in daemon mode
To run fetchmail in daemon mode

$ fetchmail -d 300

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fetchmail-5.0.0

Description

Configuration

Run in cron mode

Run in daemon mode