Posts Tagged ‘fetchmail’
April 18th, 2009 | 
Author: This post will assume you just have a fully functional working mail server and you want do download all emails from some mailboxes located on another mail server, tipically located on your service provider’s one.
This post guide will guide you to install and configure fetchmail and use it with your RHEL 5 or newer, you should use all the following information also with CentOS without change any line, but you shoud adapt it to every Linux distribution.
Most likely you want to setup fetchmail to download your domain mailbox over pop3 and inject into Postfix (or whatever you use as MTA).
To install fetchmail use the following :
yum install fetchmail -y
You should decide how to use fetchmail :
* as a daemon
* as a cron scheduled task
