Information about pop3 client

Thomas Stivers stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
Wed Feb 23 11:47:20 UTC 2005


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On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:09:42 PM +0100, Sauro Cesaretti wrote:
> Hi all
> I'm looking for a client for reading email from  pop3 server under linux.
> I tried to configure fetchmail but I think its too complex.

Fetchmail really probably is your best bet for downloading from pop
accounts. It isn't as complicated as it looks. Just create a file called
.fetchmailrc (note the dot) in your home directory. In this file put the
following lines replacing the information for your specific account.

poll your.pop.server.here with protocol pop3
user popuser there is systemuser here password "popaassword"

You can have as many of these sections as you need for all your
accounts. The popuser is your user name on the pop server, and
systemuser is your username on your own system. If they are not
different you can just leave out the user part.

Now if you want to fetch your mail just run fetchmail and it will arrive
in your local mailbox. If you want to get your mail automatically every
5 minutes just use "fetchmail -d300". You can put that in your
.bash_profile to have your mail checked whenever your logged in. You can
make fetchmail a lot more complicated than this, but this should be
enough to get you started.

And if you think fetchmail is complicated just wait until you want to
use procmail one of these days.

> There is something more simple to use and more immediate?
> I'm waiting for your reply.

You can also use mutt to fetch mail from a pop server, but it really
isn't as easy as fetchmail, though it may be more immediate.

HTH

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by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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