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Retrieving Emails From Remote Servers With fetchmail on Debian Linux. Fetchmail is a program for retrieving emails from remote servers. Imagine you have five email accounts on five different servers. Of course, you don't want to connect to each of them to get your emails. This is where fetchmail comes into play. If you have a user account on a Linux server, you can make fetchmail download emails from remote servers and put them into just one mailbox (the one of your Linux user), from where you can retrieve them with your email client (e.g. Thunderbird or Outlook).
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Hi,
Thanks for Falko for this great howto! Here is another good one related to fetchmail:
http://axljab.homelinux.org/Gmail_POP3_with_Fetchmail
This is about how to configure fetchmail to use with mailboxes having SSL, especially with gmail. Of course the principles of it can be applied to any SSL capable mailbox as well.
Regards,
Csarlee
Hey, Falko.
You are reading in my mind... I was working on that subject ('cause i need it) ;)
Of course, i'll stop mine to follow your HowTo.
Thanks a lot
and
Keep up the great work!
It's been a long time since I set up my fetchmail (it's one of those "set and forget" things) but, IIRC, an existing, properly configured MTA is not a prerequisite, as the preliminary comment states.
Fetchmail should hand off retrieved mail to whatever application is stipulated in the run control file. It defaults to port 25 only if it has not been given another application.
Fetchmail can also be forced to deliver directly to the user's mail spool:
and wants mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d user"
Regards,
Robert Thorsby
Like someone else, it's been years since I last set up fetchmail, so thanks for making it as painless as possible - I couldn't remember how to do it at all!
Worked perfectly even in 2015, thanks a bunch!
Is there a way to perform fetching for 50 different zimbra users, when each user has his own pop accounts?
# Configure the ISP accounts (POP server, users and respective passwords) poll pop.sao.terra.com.br with protocol POP3: user "johndoe", password "pass1", is john here; user "janedoe", password "pass2", is jane here
Robert, you say "Fetchmail should hand off retrieved mail to whatever application is stipulated in the run control file." An example would sure help me a lot since all I'm going to do is send emails to my server for it to launch scripts. I don't have any email viewer on it, I don't plan on reading emails at that console.
Hi Friend,
I would like to take a backup of all email accounts and emails from the live server. I have run qmailtoaster in centos server in live server.
Could you help me, how to setup and configure fetchmail server in another machine.
I want to keep all the email account and emails in both the server.
Thank you,
Mani