Questions tagged [fetchmail]
Fetchmail is a unix/unix-like utility used to retrieve emails from a remote server and deliver them to users
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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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Fetchmail disconnecting on SSL mismatch
My fetchmail (v6.4.24) is connecting to an MTA that holds mail for many domains, and it has certs for each domain. The MTA (running dovecot) expects the client to use TLS SNI to present the right ...
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Fetchmail won't run as daemon
I have fetchmail set up to grab emails from a Google account. If I set fetchmailrc ownership to root:root and run fetchmail -vvv --nodetach --nosyslog -f /etc/fetchmailrc, it gets the emails as ...
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Fetchmail not writing to log
I'm setting up fetchmail for use with Request Tracker on a RHEL 8 server. It's not working and I'm unable to troubleshoot because it doesn't appear to be writing to /var/log/syslog or /var/log/...
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How to use fetchmail with procmail (or maildrop) on a server running sendmail?
I have Amazon Linux instances in AWS EC2. They run sendmail to communicate with each other, and send outgoing mail through a SMARTHOST that is a commercial email provider. No MX records are pointing ...
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procmail returning with exit code 0 even if it can't read its config file: How to prevent?
I am dealing with procmail the first time, so I apologize if the following question is stupid. Before I put procmail in production, I am doing a few basic tests. One of them yielded a totally ...
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Installing fetchmail - Not found in current repositories
Background
This is probably very basic for someone, but I can not figure this out for the life of me. I wish to simply install fetchmail onto my raspberry pi. Using the command sudo apt-get install ...
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Mail Retrieve Software for Microsoft 365
As Microsoft 365 is moving to Oauth2, and Fetchmail didn't release a stable version supporting it (only an Alpha on the version 7, but not solid), my organization is looking for a IMAP mail retrieve ...
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What is the meaning of %F, %T, and %s in fetchmail's mda option?
Browsing through web pages around the World Wide Web, I often come across ~/.fetchmailrc examples such as:
poll mail.example.com
port 993
proto imap
user "max123" password "...
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O365 attempting to use fetchmail to poll emails to local postfix/dovecot mails server
We currently have an application that uses IMAP/POP3 to access mail in O365; however, Microsoft has determined that they will no longer be allowing basic authentication. By do this, the application ...
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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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What replaces /etc/services in openSUSE, and how
I am running openSUSE Linux, the Tumbleweed version. I discovered that it does
not use an /etc/services file, though I do not know what is replacing it, or
how it is done, and I do not have much ...
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Procmail cyrillic conversion
I wrote a script for fetchmail to take mail from an account and pipe the messages to procmail for it to apply filters and save attachments. I used filter for Subject of the message, but I have ...
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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:
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