On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:21:00 -0800 Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, OT post here, but: > > I (the office, actually) have this lousy ISP that sells mailboxes > limited to 50MB. Whatever, I can't change that just now. > > I have need to keep all mail in one place... for safekeeping, mostly. > 50MB is not enough and I get a quota warning. > > So, knowing this situation is BS, I thought, what's the quickest and > dirtiest way (short of hacking up another perl script) that I can make > this just go away, without losing that backup storage? > > 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 see the process as, getting a quota warning and then running > 'fetchmail' as a user. It worked, but not how I want. > > 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. > > So, what part did I miss about setting the MAILDIR? For some reason my > config selected the 'DEFAULT'. How can I set up multiple procmail > targets and choose which one I want based on the .fetchmailrc? > > (Yeah, I don't want to actually learn procmail rules or anything.) > > poll pop.lousyfreakinisp.com protocol POP3 > user "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" password "job" fetchall > mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" > > Or, is there some other more lightweight brainless set-and-forget way > I can approach this? Quota-warning->dumpALLpop3email to local folders > one each for six or seven email accounts? Without setting up new > users? > > I don't really even care what the format of the folder is, just that > it isn't the multi-gigabyte .pst files everyone else has. Would > rcvstore[?] work? > > Cheers, > If you don't want to run an email server, or at least offer pop or imap access to users' maildirs, your only real choice is to use a mail client. use eg claws or thunderbird to pop off your isp's server and store it locally. not as flexible as a server, but the next best thing. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
