Re: WooHoo! Courier-Imap is imapping away! (fetchmail config)
----- Original Message -----
From: "BruceG" <bruce-lists@manygriffi.blogdns.net>
To: "Debian-User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: WooHoo! Courier-Imap is imapping away! (fetchmail config)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> To: "Debian-User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:12 PM
> Subject: Re: WooHoo! Courier-Imap is imapping away!
>
>
> > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:47, BruceG wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> > > To: "Debian-User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 1:35 PM
> > > Subject: Re: WooHoo! Courier-Imap is imapping away!
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 11:15, BruceG wrote:
> > > > > Thanks for the help on the list, and for the following article:
> > > > >
> > > > >
ttp://talk.trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/exim_maildir_imap.shtml -
> I
> > > > > got courier-imap (and courier-pop) installed and working. Able to
> get
> > > > > IMAP e-mail using OE. Haven't tried Evolution yet. Will try that
> yet.
> > > > > I also installed courier-imap-ssl and courier-pop-ssl, but haven't
> > > > > tried them yet. But - PROGRESS!!!
> > > >
> > > > Congratulations. Have you gotten sub-folders working yet?
> > > >
> > > I haven't gotten there yet. I took a look at it, but need to decide
how
> I
> > > want the subfolders to be built. Next task is to get fetchmail
working.
> It's
> > > installed, I created a .fetchmailrc in my ~/home directory. Think I
need
> to
> > > start the fetchmail daemon or something like that.
> >
> > I put fetchmail in my private crontab, via the command 'crontab -e'.
> > If you do it that way, do *not* install fetchmail in daemon mode.
> > Otherwise, the 2 methods will stomp on each other.
> >
> > --
> Okay - how do I put it in crontab? I tested, and can get my pop e-mail
using
> the following command:
> fetchmail mail.bellsouth.net --protocol pop3 --username (myusername)
>
> I ran this logged on as me, and it goes into my directory - which is what
I
> want it to do. My localusername is different than my name at the ISP. I
also
> had to manually enter my password. What is the command I should have in my
> fetchmail command string?
>
Think I got it. Shoulda read a little more before asking.
My ~/.fetchmailrc looks like:
poll mail.bellsouth.net protocol pop3 user (me) password (mypass)
Then crontab looks like:
0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/sbin/fetchmail
I think it'll work. I typed in fetchmail from the command line and it used
my .fetchmailrc properly, so hoping crontab is good. (my first cron, oh
boy!)
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