From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 15 02:01:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA11941 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 02:01:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from drwho.xnet.com (drwho.xnet.com [205.243.140.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA11922 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 02:01:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drwho@drwho.xnet.com) Received: (from drwho@localhost) by drwho.xnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA05087; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 04:01:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from drwho) From: Michael Maxwell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 04:01:13 -0600 (CST) To: trout2@advancenet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: fetchmail? In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990213132502.0103c480@mail.advancenet.net> References: <3.0.5.32.19990213132502.0103c480@mail.advancenet.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14023.61235.864082.277467@drwho.xnet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG trout2@advancenet.net writes: > i have recently got ppp going, now i want to get my mail from my isp. > > i have been trying to get fetchmail to work. it the .fetchmailrc file, how > do you tell fetchmail where to put your mail? and, where is a good place? i > am using pine, so where does pine look? these are things i haven't been > able to find in the man pages. Normally, the way I use fetchmail is in conjunction with sendmail. The "default" installation of sendmail on freebsd is adequate (you may need to change the "DM" line in your /etc/sendmail.cf to your ISP's domain name to make your From lines correct). For example, my /etc/sendmail.cf has the following "DM" line: DMxnet.com Next, a quick and dirty way to run fetchmail (provided you're only downloading mail for yourself and not for several users) is to edit your .fetchmailrc to look something like: set daemon 180 # Poll at 3-minute intervals defaults fetchall # Use this for production poll YOUR.SMTPSERVER.COM protocol POP3: password YOURPASSWORD This is almost exactly from the sample.fetchmailrc provided with the sources for fetchmail (I compiled it myself instead of from the ports, so dig in your ports source directory for this). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message