On 15 Feb 2008, at 18:21, Michael Higgins wrote:
...
Anyway, I puzzled a bit and decided 'fetchmail' sounds pretty good,
pretty much what I want to do here. But, it needs sendmail...?? I
don't
want a MTA on this box. So, I see 'procmail' is an alternative target.
Hmm.
I use maildrop here, instead of procmail, and am very happy with it.
In a multiuser system I might use this minimal configuration in each
user's ~/.mailfilter:
MAILBOX="$HOME/.maildir"
to "${MAILBOX}"
I'm not sure if it's possible to reduce this, set a default global
variable so that it will default to ~/.maildir for all users, or run
without ~/.mailfilter files - I tend to just stick the above in /etc/
skel.
...
I got the mail off the server, but now it's in my 'own' .maildir
folder.
As I will need to set up a dump folder for a bunch of different
accounts, this won't do.
`man fetchmail` is long, perhaps a little difficult to read, but
comprehensive, IME:
Here's what a simple retrieval configuration for a multi-
drop mailbox
looks like:
poll pop.provider.net:
user maildrop with pass secret1 to golux
'hurkle'='happy' snark here
This says that the mailbox of account `maildrop' on the
server is a
multi-drop box, and that messages in it should be parsed for
the server
user names `golux', `hurkle', and `snark'. It further
specifies that
`golux' and `snark' have the same name on the client as on
the server,
but mail for server user `hurkle' should be delivered to
client user
`happy'.
It's usual to use the global /etc/fetchmail file for the user /
password declarations, in this case. This is read when you run
fetchmail using the /etc/init.d/fetchmail script.
Stroller.
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