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Re: [fetchmail]Fetchmail obsoletes popclient? How do I ...

2004-08-06 08:27:04
On Aug 6, 2004, at 8:10 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:

Please tell me if I'm wrong -- Wherever I look on the internet, people
say that fetchmail obsoletes popclient.

I want to pop messages from a server, and dump the output directly to
file, or stdout, instead of forwarding to the local mta or mda.

I can't find any way to make fetchmail do this for me, and I can't find
a download for popclient anymore.

Should fetchmail do this for me?


You should be able to do this if you use procmail as your delivery agent. Have fetchmail directly run with the procmail delivery agent (instead of using the local SMTP port), and have the procmail config file send the message to a particular file (though, you wont be able to send it to stdout, I don't think).

I don't have the details of this set up, I just know it can be done.