fetchmail typical use

To poll a remote POP3 server and pick up all mail to a user, create a file /~.fetchmailrc as per the following example. Note that /~.fetchmailrc must be chown auser.auser and chmod 600.

poll mail.pop3server.com proto pop3 username popuser password passwd is auser here smtpaddress mail.thisserver.domain

Replacing...

Key	Replaced by
mail.pop3server.com	the remote pop server
popuser	the user's remote account name
passwd	the user's remote account password
auser	the local user name
mail.thisserver.domain	the local mail server

Then add the following entry to /etc/crontab:

# (minutes)  (hours)  (day of month)  (month)  (   day of week    )  (username)  (command)
# ( 0-59  )  ( 0-23)  (    1-31    )  ( 1-12)  (0-7, 0 or 7 is Sun)
0 17 * * *  auser  fetchmail

fetchmail related links

• The fetchmail Home Page