Re: Fetchmail.

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- Tony Schonfeld wrote about "Fetchmail."
| Please can i have an example to use fetchmail running from root
| to retrieve a mail from a pop server and forward it to my 
| local smtp server ?
| 

Here is mine.  I run 'fetchmail -d 300' from ip-up and then 'fetchmail
-q' in ip-down.

set logfile = "/var/log/fetchmail"
poll <pop server> protocol pop3 timeout 60:
        user <remote username> there has password <remote passwd> is <local user> here
        fetchall

This works for me.

-- 
Brian 
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