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How to set-up fetchmail

• Audience: Advanced E-Mail setup
• Requires: MacPorts >= 1.6, mail/fetchmail, shells/zsh-devel

Introduction

This How-to is part of the Fetchmail -> Postfix -> Dovecot advanced e-Mail set-up.

[wikipeadia:Fetchmail fetchmail] fetchmail is program used to collect e-mail from ​internet service provider and transfers them to the local ​mail transfer agent for further distribution.

[wikipeadia:Fetchmail fetchmail] can collect mail from various sources and for multiple users. With the setup described here the user does not need to start an ​Email_Client for collection to happen. In fact the user does not even need to be logged in.

Installation

Install fetchmail with

port install fetchmail +fetchmailconf +ssl 

or use the fetchmail which comes preinstalled.

Configuration

Step 1: TODO: Step 1 title

TODO

Optional Parts

TODO: What else can be done?

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