Collect mails from other accounts
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Revision as of 03:12, 17 October 2008 by imported>ThorstenStaerk (New page: To collect mails from pop accounts, we use fetchmail. To configure it, use the file .fetchmailrc in your home directory. It should look like this: poll ''pop.provider.net'' user ...)
To collect mails from pop accounts, we use fetchmail. To configure it, use the file .fetchmailrc in your home directory. It should look like this:
poll pop.provider.net user "username@provider.net" pass "password" is localuser mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f fetchmail"
Replace
- localuser with your local user on your Linux box.
- pop.provider.net with your provider's pop server name.
- username@provider.net with your mail address
- password with your password at the provider