From: Martin Trautmann <traut(_at_)gmx(_dot_)de>
may I ask for some newbie help: How do I get started with fetchmail?
The man page is always a good start :-)
My initial problem was that the IMAP exchange server started to strip
headerlines from messages.
Header line from a "telnet <server> 143" and sample stripped message?
Up to now I used mutt directly on the
mailboxes, although I had some trouble sometimes. Thus I had a second look
at fetchmail (trying v.5.7 before).
Ok, I got fetchmail release 5.9.13+NTLM+NLS
But how do I start this thing?
RTFM. Hint there's a daemon option.
What I want to do first:
- get some mail, identified by Receiver or header lines, to
local mailboxes (such as $HOME/Mail/In)
Multidrop boxes? Take a look at the multidrop section of the man page.
- leave some mail, identified by Sender, on the IMAP server,
maybe sorting it to other boxes, since Outlook is far from
perfect for this task.
You can't. It's pull everything or nothing.
- identify some spam (using procmail) and sort some out
That's down to procmail (or whatever) and has nothing to do with fetchmail.
Please don't CC me on anything sent to mailing lists or send
me email directly unless it's a privacy issue, thanks.
Reply-to mangled to assist those who don't read the above :)
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