Re: mail recive and send

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

"Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@connexer.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:17:00PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > Jon Dowland <lists@alcopop.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > You need a seperate piece of software to fetch the mail from
> > > gmail via the POP3 protocol. Fetchmail or, ideally,
> > > retchmail.
> > 
> > getmail is very easy to configure, at leas compared to fetchmail
> > 
> 
> Huh?  Configurig fetchmail was braindead easy.  Just copy the default
> fetchmailrc from /etc (or modify it if you want a systemwide setup) and
> then follow the commented out examples in the file.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Roberto

This is my getmailrc:

[retriever]
type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever
server = pop.gmail.com
port = 995
username = andreimpopescu
password = xxxxxxx (my real password)

[destination]
type = MDA_external
path = /usr/bin/maildrop
unixfrom = True

for direct delivery to Maildir it would have been something like

[destination]
type = Maildir
path = ~/Maildir/

but I use maildrop for filtering.

If you want to run it periodically, all you need is a simple cron job:

	crontab -e

and add

0-59/5 * * * * /usr/bin/getmail --quiet

change the 5 to whatever frequency you want mail checked (10, 15, 20, ... minutes)

Regards,
Andrei
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