Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:27:09 +0100 From: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@4thwave.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: config for POP3 mail Message-ID: <20010615102709.A3825@tethys.valhalla.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010614221359.02130750@mail.cz>; from cynic@mail.cz on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:37:36PM %2B0200 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010614221359.02130750@mail.cz>
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Cynic (cynic@mail.cz) wrote: > Also, if you can recommend a setup... I recieve ~200 messages > a day mainly from several busy mailing lists. Seems like I could > use e. g. getmail to fetch email and sort it into folders upon > retrieval, right? As others have said, fetchmail (ports/mail/fetchmail) will grab your mail from the POP servers and 'inject' it into your local MTA for delivery to your mailbox/maildir. fetchmail is really easy to set up -- a simple ~/.fetchmailrc could be: poll pop.isp1.net proto POP3 user "joebloggs" pass "secret" is "cynic" here poll pop.isp2.net proto POP3 user "bloggsj" pass "secret" is "cynic" here poll pop.isp3.net proto POP3 user "j.bloggs" pass "secret" is "cynic" here The 'is "cynic" here' part tells fetchmail what local user the mail is destined for. This might be unnecessary. Running "fetchmail" will pick the mail up for you. It can also be run in daemon mode which will download any waiting mail at some specified interval. Check the man page for more details. Procmail (ports/mail/procmail) will do the sorting for you. I use it to move list mail into separate folders (using a very neat procmail recipe I found on the net) and as a basic spam filter. I read my mail using mutt (ports/mail/mutt) which is a very powerful MUA that I can't recommend enough. It has some great features, such as message threading, colour support and 'hooks' which allow you to change almost any configuration settings depending on your actions (changing folder, etc). I use hooks to change my From: address and signature for list/work mail for example. If you want a copy of my mutt/procmail configuration files, mail me off-list and I'll send them to you. Cheers, -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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