Re: [fetchmail-users] first time setup help

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 10/25/06, wa...@wa... <wa...@wa...> wrote:
> 10242006 1901 GMT-6
>
> I'm on ubuntu 6.06LTS.
> I'm setting up fetchmail for the first time.
> I have a few questions on the settings.
>
> I have been reading the documentation but as this is all new to me, I
> want to make sure I'm getting this right.
>
> I used fetchmailconf to get started. It created this:
>
> set syslog
> set postmaster "wadesmart"
> set no bouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
> set daemon 120
>
> poll mail.wadesmart.com
>      user 'wa...@wa...' there with password 'password' is
> 'wadesmart' here

That looks fine.

> That is all that it put down. So I'm reading the documentation and I see
> that there is supposed to be something else. I added:
>
> poll mail.wadesmart.com
>   uidl protocol pop3 auth password
>   user 'wa...@wa...' there with password 'password' is
> 'wadesmart' here
>   nokeep

UIDL is worth having, the other changes you shouldn't need.

> I read in the documentation that postmaster is usually 'root' so I
> wonder about this being 'wadesmart'.

That's the way I do it and it works fine.

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