Help configuring fetchmail
linux at bizniche.com
linux at bizniche.com
Wed Oct 13 12:52:01 CDT 2004
> > Here is what's not working yet.
> > 1) Fetchmail only runs when I tell it to ...
>
> There are a couple of ways: fetchmail -d will use fetchmail's
> internal scheduling. This does some specific types of errorhandling for
> servers that don't respond properly, and you may want to read the docs for
> the specifics on this.
>
> I prefer to run fetchmail from cron, since cron is running anyway. This
> allows me to use different config files for different times of day or days of
> the week - I can leave my mail on the server so it can be fetched from both
> home and work, then clean it all out at the weekend; I can check mail
> frequently when I'm home and awake and infrequently when I'm away or asleep.
>
> > 2) I _really_ want to find out if there is way I can get fetchmail (or
> > something else?) to put mail it gets from the pop accounts into IMAP
> > folder based on which account it pulls from.
>
> What are you filtering/sorting your mail with now? You may need to filter on
> the "to" address, or go a little deeper into the headers to select the pop
> info. What fetchmail does is hand mail off to the local delivery agent
> (LDA), which usually handles filtering and sorting.
Right now I'm not filtering at all. All the mail just goes into my main
inbox. So...am I currently using an LDA? Maybe that's what
Courier-IMAP does?
Matt
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