The fetchmail program can gather mail from servers support- ing any of the common mail-retrieval protocols: POP2 (legacy, to be removed from future release), POP3, IMAP2bis, IMAP4, and IMAP4rev1. It can also use the ESMTP ETRN exten- sion and ODMR. (The RFCs describing all these ...
fetchmail cannot make deletions final without sending QUIT and ending the session -- with this option on, fetchmail will break a long mail retrieval session into multiple sub-sessions, sending QUIT after each sub-session. This is a good defense against line drops on POP3 servers. Under...
The model how their servers organize mail also deviates in significant ways from what the POP3 or IMAP protocol 'fathers' conceived. This means all sorts of strange effects, for instance, your sent mail may show up in the mail that fetchmail fetches. It's best to avoid fetching mail from ...
fetchmail-5.9.14 (Fri Sep 6 05:03:25 EDT 2002), 21932 lines: * Sunil Shetye's patch to eliminate multiple bounces. * Moritz Jodeit <moritz@jodeit.org>'s patch for re-exec with no args. * Sunil Shetye's patch to solve the re-exec problem with relative files. * Cygwin portability...
Under Unix, it counts on your IMAP server to notice the BSD-style Status flags set by mail user agents and set the \Seen flag from them when appropriate. All Unix IMAP servers we know of do this, though it's not specified by the IMAP RFCs. If you ever trip over a server that ...
The fetchmail program can gather mail from servers support- ing any of the common mail-retrieval protocols: POP2 (legacy, to be removed from future release), POP3, IMAP2bis, IMAP4, and IMAP4rev1. It can also use the ESMTP ETRN exten- sion and ODMR. (The RFCs describing all these ...
fetchmail reference manual fetchmail(1) NAME fetchmail - fetch mail from a POP, IMAP, ETRN, or ODMR-capable server SYNOPSIS fetchmail [option...] [mailserver...] fetchmailconf DESCRIPTION fetchmail is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility; it fetches mail from remote mailservers and forwards ...