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