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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY fetchmail-download-http "http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-&fetchmail-version;.tar.gz">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY fetchmail-download-ftp "ftp://gnome.dti.ad.jp/.1/unix/net/mail/fetchmail/fetchmail-&fetchmail-version;.tar.gz">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY fetchmail-size "1.2 MB">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY fetchmail-buildsize "5.8 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY fetchmail-time "0.14 SBU">
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| 12 | ]>
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| 13 |
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[1708d1e9] | 14 | <sect1 id="fetchmail" xreflabel="Fetchmail">
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[a0f03b0] | 15 | <sect1info>
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[5cd0959d] | 16 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 17 | <date>$Date$</date>
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[a0f03b0] | 18 | </sect1info>
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[00bb024c] | 19 | <?dbhtml filename="fetchmail.html"?>
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[1708d1e9] | 20 | <title>Fetchmail-&fetchmail-version;</title>
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[f45b1953] | 21 |
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[bfe245f] | 22 | <sect2>
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| 23 | <title>Introduction to <application>Fetchmail</application></title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>The <application>Fetchmail</application> package contains a mail
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| 26 | retrieval program. "It retrieves mail from remote mail servers and
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| 27 | forwards it to your local (client) machine's delivery system, so it can then be
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| 28 | read by normal mail user agents." </para>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <sect3><title>Package information</title>
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| 31 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 32 | <listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
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| 33 | url="&fetchmail-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
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| 34 | <listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
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| 35 | url="&fetchmail-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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| 36 | <listitem><para>Download size: &fetchmail-size;</para></listitem>
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[775c349a] | 37 | <listitem><para>Estimated disk space required:
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[bfe245f] | 38 | &fetchmail-buildsize;</para></listitem>
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| 39 | <listitem><para>Estimated build time:
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| 40 | &fetchmail-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
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| 41 | </sect3>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <sect3><title><application>Fetchmail</application> dependencies</title>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <sect4><title>Required</title>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <para><xref linkend="openssl"/> and a local MDA (<xref linkend="procmail"/>)
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| 48 | </para>
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| 49 | </sect4>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <sect4><title>Optional</title>
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[775c349a] | 52 | <para><xref linkend="python"/> and <xref linkend="tk"/>.</para>
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[bfe245f] | 53 | </sect4>
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| 54 | </sect3>
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| 55 |
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| 56 | </sect2>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | <sect2>
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| 59 | <title>Installation of <application>Fetchmail</application></title>
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| 60 |
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| 61 | <para>Install <application>Fetchmail</application> by running the following commands:</para>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-ssl --enable-fallback=procmail &&
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| 64 | make &&
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| 65 | make install</command></userinput></screen>
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| 66 |
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| 67 | </sect2>
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| 68 |
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| 69 | <sect2>
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| 70 | <title>Command explanations</title>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | <para><option>--with-ssl</option>: This enables
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| 73 | <acronym>SSL</acronym> if found, so that you can handle connections to
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| 74 | secure <acronym>POP</acronym>3 and <acronym>IMAP</acronym> servers.</para>
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <para><parameter>--enable-fallback=procmail</parameter>: This tells
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| 77 | <application>Fetchmail</application> to hand incoming mail to
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| 78 | <application>Procmail</application> for delivery if your port 25 mail server is
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| 79 | not present or not responding.</para>
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| 80 |
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| 81 | </sect2>
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| 82 |
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| 83 | <sect2>
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| 84 | <title>Configuring <application>Fetchmail</application></title>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | <sect3><title>Config files</title>
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| 87 | <para><filename>~/.fetchmailrc</filename></para>
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| 88 | </sect3>
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| 89 |
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| 90 | <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 91 |
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| 92 | <screen><userinput><command>cat > ~/.fetchmailrc << "EOF"</command>
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| 93 | set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log
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| 94 | set no bouncemail
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| 95 | set postmaster root
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| 96 |
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| 97 | poll SERVERNAME :
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| 98 | user <replaceable>[username]</replaceable> pass <replaceable>[password]</replaceable>;
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| 99 | mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F -d %T";
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| 100 | <command>EOF</command>
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| 101 |
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| 102 | <command>chmod 0600 ~/.fetchmailrc</command></userinput></screen>
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| 103 |
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| 104 | <para>This is an example configuration that should suffice for most people. You
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| 105 | can add as many users and servers as you need using the same syntax.</para>
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| 106 |
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| 107 | <para><command>man fetchmail</command>: Look for the section near
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| 108 | the bottom named <emphasis role="strong">CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES</emphasis>. It
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| 109 | gives some quick examples. There are countless other config options once
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| 110 | you get used to it.</para>
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| 111 |
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| 112 | </sect3>
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| 113 |
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| 114 | </sect2>
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| 115 |
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| 116 | <sect2>
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| 117 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 118 |
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| 119 | <para>The <application>Fetchmail</application> package contains
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| 120 | <command>fetchmail</command> and <command>fetchmailconf</command>.</para>
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| 121 |
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| 122 | </sect2>
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| 123 |
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| 124 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 125 |
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| 126 | <sect3><title>fetchmail</title>
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| 127 | <para>When executed as a user, this will source that users
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| 128 | <filename>~/.fetchmailrc</filename> and download the appropriate mail.
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| 129 | </para></sect3>
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| 130 |
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| 131 | <sect3>
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| 132 | <title>fetchmailconf</title>
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| 133 |
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| 134 | <para>This program provides a <application>Tk</application>
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| 135 | <acronym>GUI</acronym> interface to your <filename>~/.fetchmailrc</filename>
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| 136 | file making it much easier to configure. However, you will require
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| 137 | <application>Python</application>, and it must have the Tkinker module
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| 138 | available.</para>
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| 139 |
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| 140 | </sect3>
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| 141 |
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| 142 | </sect2>
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[f45b1953] | 143 |
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| 144 | </sect1>
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| 145 |
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