glfs/basicnet/mailnews/fetchmail.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
<!ENTITY fetchmail-download-http "http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-&fetchmail-version;.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY fetchmail-download-ftp "ftp://gnome.dti.ad.jp/.1/unix/net/mail/fetchmail/fetchmail-&fetchmail-version;.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY fetchmail-md5sum "9956b30139edaa4f5f77c4d0dbd80225">
<!ENTITY fetchmail-size "1.2 MB">
<!ENTITY fetchmail-buildsize "5.8 MB">
<!ENTITY fetchmail-time "0.14 SBU">
]>
<sect1 id="fetchmail" xreflabel="Fetchmail">
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<?dbhtml filename="fetchmail.html"?>
<title>Fetchmail-&fetchmail-version;</title>
<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application>Fetchmail</application></title>
<para>The <application>Fetchmail</application> package contains a mail
retrieval program. &quot;It retrieves mail from remote mail servers and
forwards it to your local (client) machine's delivery system, so it can then be
read by normal mail user agents.&quot; </para>
<sect3><title>Package information</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
url="&fetchmail-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
url="&fetchmail-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download MD5 sum: &fetchmail-md5sum;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download size: &fetchmail-size;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated disk space required:
&fetchmail-buildsize;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated build time:
&fetchmail-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3><title><application>Fetchmail</application> dependencies</title>
<sect4><title>Required</title>
<para><xref linkend="openssl"/> and
a local MDA (<xref linkend="procmail"/>)</para>
</sect4>
<sect4><title>Optional</title>
<para><xref linkend="python"/> and <xref linkend="tk"/></para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Installation of <application>Fetchmail</application></title>
<para>Install <application>Fetchmail</application> by running the following
commands:</para>
<screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-ssl --enable-fallback=procmail &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
make install</command></userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Command explanations</title>
<para><option>--with-ssl</option>: This enables
<acronym>SSL</acronym> if found, so that you can handle connections to
secure <acronym>POP</acronym>3 and <acronym>IMAP</acronym> servers.</para>
<para><parameter>--enable-fallback=procmail</parameter>: This tells
<application>Fetchmail</application> to hand incoming mail to
<application>Procmail</application> for delivery if your port 25 mail server is
not present or not responding.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Configuring <application>Fetchmail</application></title>
<sect3><title>Config files</title>
<para><filename>~/.fetchmailrc</filename></para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
<screen><userinput><command>cat &gt; ~/.fetchmailrc &lt;&lt; "EOF"</command>
set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log
set no bouncemail
set postmaster root
poll SERVERNAME :
user <replaceable>[username]</replaceable> pass <replaceable>[password]</replaceable>;
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F -d %T";
<command>EOF</command>
<command>chmod 0600 ~/.fetchmailrc</command></userinput></screen>
<para>This is an example configuration that should suffice for most people.
You can add as many users and servers as you need using the same syntax.</para>
<para><command>man fetchmail</command>: Look for the section near
the bottom named <emphasis role="strong">CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES</emphasis>. It
gives some quick examples. There are countless other config options once
you get used to it.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>
<para>The <application>Fetchmail</application> package contains
<command>fetchmail</command> and <command>fetchmailconf</command>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>Description</title>
<sect3><title>fetchmail</title>
<para>When executed as a user, this will source that users
<filename>~/.fetchmailrc</filename> and download the appropriate mail.
</para></sect3>
<sect3>
<title>fetchmailconf</title>
<para>This program provides a <application>Tk</application>
<acronym>GUI</acronym> interface to your <filename>~/.fetchmailrc</filename>
file making it much easier to configure. However, you will require
<application>Python</application>, and it must have the Tkinker module
available.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>