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Retrieve mails of only one specific account with fetchmail

The situation I have the following ~/.fetchmailrc poll pop.gmail.com protocol pop3 user "[email protected]" password "***" ssl mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d ...
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Where does fetchmail store e-mails?

Having removed procmail, am looking for where fetchmail is storing messages: nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ tail -f /var/log/fetchmail.log fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 OK [READ-WRITE] INBOX ...
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How do I setup email on FreeBSD? [closed]

I am new to handling things in a low level fashion and I am horrified at the lack of documentation for newbies who have had zero experience setting up MTAs, MDAs, etc. I simply need to connect to my ...
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Recover/reupload messages deleted by fetchmail

I used fetchmail to access my Hotmail/Outlook mailbox. It downloaded every message inside Inbox, but now that folder is empty at the server. Now I see that fetchmail deletes messages by default: -k ...
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Problems setting up dbmail with postfix

Im trying to create my own mailserver using dbmail for email storage. I have configured dbmail to work with postfix following their setup guide http://www.dbmail.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/setup_postfix ...
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Processing/sorting mail from a mailbox-file?

I got a mailbox-file ("Mboxrd") created by getmail, and I'd like to "process" it by sorting mail from various (groups of) senders, and move them to separate mailbox-files (I guess 3-5 for now). ...
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How do you use procmail mda to deliver files to be read by mh?

I'm using fetchmail to download email, and using procmail for delivery as the mda. I'd like them to be delivered for use with mh, but procmail seems to deliver them in a manner that mh doesn't ...
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centos6.4 fetchmail not downloading mail more than 5MB?

i just configured fetchmail in CentOS 6.4. by the help of this tutorial everything is working mail is downloading well. But it's not downloading mails with attachments more than 5MB(approx.). ...
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Downloading an attachment from Inbox using the command-line

Please help me figure out the right program to use to solve the following: Everyday I have a report emailed as a PDF attachment to my inbox. The subject is the same, and it is from the same email ...
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fetchmail sees mail but doesn't fetch it - persistent "temporary lookup failure"

I transferred my email setup to a new laptop, and fetchmail stopped fetching my mail. From what I can tell in the fetchmail log, it authorizes fine, sees that new emails are there, tries to fetch ...
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Fetchmail with local Postfix on Home-Server

a small question... I have a fully configured postfix server which have a few domains, few users, and much more. Then I have a smart host which receives all mails and send all mails. For example ...
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fetchmail: fetch sent mail to sent folder, or fetch to a target folder

How can I configure fetchmail to fetch a folder to a specific target folder? Or at least not fetch to inbox? If it would fetch from sent to sent (or any folder to the same folder name) I'd be happy ...
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Download big imap directory to maildir

I search a solution to download (for archiving) a large mail directory via imap from a mail-server and stores all mails in a local maildir. I need a robust solution, which repeatedly tries if time-...
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Checking if a mail has arrived, if not then alert

I am using fetchmail in combination with procmail for mail filtering on CentOS where my mail contains various log messages. They serve me so I could search through my mail(logs) for error strings. So ...
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Does fetchmail support SSL or TLS when using SMTP to forward email?

I am trying to forward emails that are fetched with fetchmail to another SMTP host, which enforces STARTTLS. I could not find a way to enable TLS in fetchmail. Is this possible at all? If so, how?
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