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.

-- 
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Optimist:   The glass is half full.
Engineer:   The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
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