[clue-tech] command line mail fetcher

[Angelo Bertolli]

Timothy Klein wrote:

> 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 am only a user on the system and cannot configure the mail server to 
accept the domain name.  In particular, I want to pop my gmail email 
over to an mbox on a UNIX server.

Angelo