I am trying to set up my box here at home to take advantage of the antivir / spamassassin for mail for the whole family, but I haven't been able to figure out the correct incantation to use fetchmail to pick up the Netscape IMAP mail. Fetchmail says it will pick up IMAP mail as well as pop, but I have only got so far. Does anyone use fetchmail to fetch imap mail, especially Netscape? I have set up Mozilla/Netscape7 to get IMAP from my office box, but I have only used fetchmail for POP so far. Time to stratch my understanding again... ;-) -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
The 02.11.11 at 17:35, Joe & Sesil Morris (NTM) wrote:
I am trying to set up my box here at home to take advantage of the antivir / spamassassin for mail for the whole family, but I haven't been able to figure out the correct incantation to use fetchmail to pick up the Netscape IMAP mail. Fetchmail says it will pick up IMAP mail as well as pop, but I have only got so far. Does anyone use fetchmail to fetch imap mail, especially Netscape? I have set up Mozilla/Netscape7 to get IMAP from my office box, but I have only used fetchmail for POP so far. Time to stratch my understanding again... ;-)
I don't understand what fetchmail has to do with Netscape :-? Fetchmail simple fetchs mails and lets the local mta distribute it locally. It does not care about what you use to read it later. A definition copied from my setup, with names changed: poll mail.whateverserver.com with proto auto timeout 30, and tracepolls user "remoteusername", with password remotepassowrd, is localuser here This will fetch all new mails from the server using imap if available, and if not revert to pop3, and even pop2. In fact, it can use many protocols, the server should inform of its capabilities. Look: Nov 8 20:11:59 nimrodel fetchmail[3117]: 5.9.13 querying pop3.server.com (protocol auto) at Fri, 08 Nov 2002 20:11:59 +0100 (CET): poll started Nov 8 20:11:59 nimrodel fetchmail[3117]: 5.9.13 querying pop3.server.com (protocol IMAP) at Fri, 08 Nov 2002 20:11:59 +0100 (CET): poll started Nov 8 20:12:00 nimrodel fetchmail[3117]: IMAP< * OK Netscape Messaging Multiplexor ready Nov 8 20:12:00 nimrodel fetchmail[3117]: IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY Nov 8 20:12:00 nimrodel fetchmail[3117]: IMAP< * CAPABILITY STARTTLS IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=EXTERNAL Nov 8 20:12:00 nimrodel fetchmail[3117]: IMAP< A0001 OK CAPABILITY completed This is not the same as using an imap server form inside Netscape, updating the remote folders, saving copies, etc. It simply fetches, that's all. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On 11/12/2002 05:55 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I don't understand what fetchmail has to do with Netscape
I am trying to download mail FROM Netscape. Investigating the netscape client files have given me the server name (the name in the settings are fake), but using ethereal to look at an exchange using Netscape have made me doubt it will work with fetchmail. It is using port 5005, not 143, so I guess it is some proprietary 'imap'.
poll mail.whateverserver.com with proto auto timeout 30, and tracepolls user "remoteusername", with password remotepassowrd, is localuser here
Similar setup doesn't work with Netscape's server. Thanks for the try though. I suspect Netscape isn't really using imap after all. -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 08:21 am, Joe & Sesil Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 11/12/2002 05:55 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I don't understand what fetchmail has to do with Netscape
I am trying to download mail FROM Netscape. Investigating the netscape client files have given me the server name (the name in the settings are fake), but using ethereal to look at an exchange using Netscape have made me doubt it will work with fetchmail. It is using port 5005, not 143, so I guess it is some proprietary 'imap'.
poll mail.whateverserver.com with proto auto timeout 30, and tracepolls user "remoteusername", with password remotepassowrd, is localuser here
Similar setup doesn't work with Netscape's server. Thanks for the try though. I suspect Netscape isn't really using imap after all. ===================
Joe, I suspect you may be right about that. I have tried several different things with Netscape mail to get it downloaded with anything other than Netscape. No luck with anything or getting it set up as an IMAP account. It is good for filtering spam mail, since it goes thru AOL, but that may be part of it's problem as well, using AOL for it's base! I just decided to move away from it and use some of the extra mail boxes that Earthlink provides. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206
The 02.11.12 at 15:02, Patrick wrote:
poll mail.whateverserver.com with proto auto timeout 30, and tracepolls user "remoteusername", with password remotepassowrd, is localuser here
Similar setup doesn't work with Netscape's server. Thanks for the try though. I suspect Netscape isn't really using imap after all. ===================
Joe, I suspect you may be right about that. I have tried several different things with Netscape mail to get it downloaded with anything other than Netscape. No luck with anything or getting it set up as an IMAP account. It is good for filtering spam mail, since it goes thru AOL, but that may be part of it's problem as well, using AOL for it's base! I just decided to move away from it and use some of the extra mail boxes that Earthlink provides.
Well, the Netscape server is capable of Imap (I talk of the software, not of the company: i know nothing about that). If you are using fetchmail, make sure you have "set syslog" at the beginning of the ".fetchmailrc", call it with option "-" (verbose), and then have a look at the "/var/log/mail", where you will see the messages interchanged between your linux and the server. Look, for one I know that uses Netscape server, I get this: Nov 12 22:27:44 nimrodel fetchmail[2563]: 5.9.13 querying pop3.someserver.com (protocol auto) at Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:27:44 +0100 (CET): poll started Nov 12 22:27:44 nimrodel fetchmail[2563]: 5.9.13 querying pop3.someserver.com (protocol IMAP) at Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:27:44 +0100 (CET): poll started Nov 12 22:27:44 nimrodel fetchmail[2563]: IMAP< * OK Netscape Messaging Multiplexor ready Nov 12 22:27:44 nimrodel fetchmail[2563]: IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY Nov 12 22:27:44 nimrodel fetchmail[2563]: IMAP< * CAPABILITY STARTTLS IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=EXTERNAL At this point fetchmail is asking whether the server (Netscape) supports imap, and it is; so it will try. Even so, sometimes it fails, the server may have it disabled at some other point. For example, the exchange server says it does, but I usually find it fails or is disabled. Nov 12 22:27:44 nimrodel fetchmail[2563]: IMAP< A0001 OK CAPABILITY completed Nov 12 22:27:44 nimrodel fetchmail[2563]: IMAP> A0002 LOGIN "someuser" "" Nov 12 22:27:45 nimrodel fetchmail[2563]: IMAP< A0002 OK User logged in -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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Carlos E. R.
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