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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 [wiki:howto/SetupFetchmail Fetchmail] ->  [wiki:howto/SetupPostfix Postfix] -> [wiki:howto/SetupDovecot Dovecot] advanced e-Mail set-up.

[wikipeadia:Fetchmail fetchmail] fetchmail is program used to collect e-mail from [wikipedia:Internet_service_provider internet service provider] and transfers them to the local [wikipedia:Mail_transfer_agent 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 [wikipedia: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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