[clue-tech] command line mail fetcher

[Timothy Klein]

On 22 Apr 2005, at 9:48 PM, Angelo Bertolli wrote:

> Is there any command-line command which will allow me to retrieve mail 
> from pop and dump it into an mbox?  I thought fetchmail would do this, 
> but as it turns out it's really a way to forward mail by SMTP.  I want 
> something that would basically work like a regular mail agent like 
> mozilla to retrieve pop mail, only that can be run from the command 
> line so I can have it run in the background every so often.
>

I'm confused.  The only reason fetchmail would not be able to do what 
you want is if you don't have any kind of mail server on the machine in 
question.  Is that the case?

I currently have fetchmail doing exactly what you ask (well, I have 
since moved away from mbox to IMAP).  fetchmail has a built in daemon 
mode, and can run system wide.  Sure, exim does the actual step of 
writing the mail to disk, but there are several lightweight mail 
servers out there.

Tim
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