Here is what's not working yet.
- Fetchmail only runs when I tell it to ...
There are a couple of ways: fetchmail -d will use fetchmail's internal scheduling. This does some specific types of errorhandling for servers that don't respond properly, and you may want to read the docs for the specifics on this.
I prefer to run fetchmail from cron, since cron is running anyway. This allows me to use different config files for different times of day or days of the week - I can leave my mail on the server so it can be fetched from both home and work, then clean it all out at the weekend; I can check mail frequently when I'm home and awake and infrequently when I'm away or asleep.
- I _really_ want to find out if there is way I can get fetchmail (or
something else?) to put mail it gets from the pop accounts into IMAP folder based on which account it pulls from.
What are you filtering/sorting your mail with now? You may need to filter on the "to" address, or go a little deeper into the headers to select the pop info. What fetchmail does is hand mail off to the local delivery agent (LDA), which usually handles filtering and sorting.
Right now I'm not filtering at all. All the mail just goes into my main inbox. So...am I currently using an LDA? Maybe that's what Courier-IMAP does?
Matt
On Wed, October 13, 2004 12:52 pm, linux@bizniche.com said:
What are you filtering/sorting your mail with now? You may need to filter on the "to" address, or go a little deeper into the headers to select the pop info. What fetchmail does is hand mail off to the local delivery agent (LDA), which usually handles filtering and sorting.
Right now I'm not filtering at all. All the mail just goes into my main inbox. So...am I currently using an LDA? Maybe that's what Courier-IMAP does?
Courier-IMAP provides the IMAP support for Mozilla Thunderbird and in my case the backend for a webmail client like squirrelmail.
Filtering for your local user accounts can come from exim/postfix/sendmail or through procmail. In my setup, mail is received through exim, then handed off to procmail, which sorts and delivers my mail to ~/Maildir where my mail lives peacefully.
The IMAP server accesses the mail from that location and allows me to read, delete, etc it.
Jeremy
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