[X4U] Fetchmail Help ?

[Aron S.Spencer]

I just did this a few days ago. Working great

Install UW-IMAP first
<http://www.spookyhill.net/~gall/HOWTO/imapdv2/index.html> has 
instructions.
then set up a .fetchmailrc file that looks something like this:

set daemon 60
set syslog
set postmaster "you"
set bouncemail
poll your.mailserver.com with proto POP3 user "username" pass 
"password" options stripcr
      mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"


It works.

Some people have used "Postfix enabler", but I found that it set up the 
imap directory in the mail.app directory, which led to extra junk 
showing up in mail.app...

On Oct 9, 2004, at 4:11 AM, David Ledger wrote:

>> From: Richard <cms01 at tampabay.rr.com>
>> Subject: [X4U] Fetchmail Help ?
>> To: List X4U <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Message-ID: <467012A9-194F-11D9-8EF9-000A2794A200 at tampabay.rr.com>
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>>
>> Well, I'm getting very tired, of Apple Mail app, not deleting
>> downloaded mail,
>> off my ISP mail server ( Road Runner ), I have the preference set to
>> remove right away,
>> for every account, and still after a couple of days, I will get over
>> quota,
>> from Road Runner, and any new mail sent to me will be bounced. (BUG)
>>
>> So, since this problem has been with me since 10.2,
>> I was thinking that fetchmail may work in this case,
>> since it does download mail from any mail server.
>>
>> However, my only problem is setting this up to work with apple mail
>> client,
>> has anyone done this as of yet?
>
> I've been playing with a similar idea, but for a different reason.
>
> My approach is to download with fetchmail on my G4 and then run an 
> IMAP server locally.  That way I can read my mail on either the G4 or 
> my PowerBook.
>
> I have had fetchmail work once as a test at a time when I was unlikely 
> to get any real email and I sent some test messages via my ISP.  
> Obviously I don't want to run fetchmail much until I'm sure I can get 
> at all the messages it downloads.
>
> My real problem is that I only have a few minutes every few days to 
> work on it, so progress is slow.  I too would be very interested if 
> anyone else has this working.  All the docs I've found assume you're 
> running OSX Server.
>
> David
>
>
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Aron S. Spencer
Elizabeth, NJ 07202