MAIL RETRIEVER

Fetchmail seems to be the default POP3 retriever in the 2 distributions I have used. I switched a while back to getmail. It is fast,efficient and most importantly, secure. The Project is also well maintained, and I have found the author to be extremely helpful.

Here is how I use getmail. This is an example of getmailrc, that resides in the /home/username/.getmaildirectory.

They are in the getmail version 5 format.

Info

They do not have to be called getmailrc. Refer to the excellent documentation regarding multiple configuration files

[options]
verbose = 1
read_all = true
delete = true
message_log = /home/roland/log/getmail.log

[retriever]
type = SimplePOP3Retriever
server = mail.your.isp.co.nz
username = useyourown
password = xxxxxx

[destination]
type = MDA_external
path = /usr/bin/procmail
arguments = ()
user = roland

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Last update: April 1, 2021