fetchmailrc and gmail and pop

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 07:32 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>> Admin wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I am trying to pop from gmail with fetchmail and getting errors at all 
>>> different types of configurations.  I've found a few howtos that have 
>>> not helped.
>>>
>>> Is there a configuration that is working out there that somebody can 
>>> send me and/or a tutorial that explains how to get fetchmail with gmail 
>>> working?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Noah
>>>
>> 	This is not help for your problem, but be aware that Thunderbird is
>> free and it will work with gmail either pop or imap. It allows you to
>> have many directories with specific email address sorting.
>>
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Karl you are correct, Thunderbird is an excellent client.  However,
> there are specific reasons Linux users prefer fetchmail and running
> their own MTA or using msmtp to send mail.
> 
> First of all, have you ever noticed the latency when clicking the send
> button in Thunderbird, or downloading your email and Thunderbird seems
> to hang or interfere with what you are doing?  Perhaps it's just me on
> this crappy satellite internet conneciton, but I much prefer fetchmail
> handle getting my mail and msmtp for sending my mail.  No latency, and
> sending email is instant, POOF it's sent - no wait a second, wait more,
> ok finally sent...
> 
> Getting my mail is invisible to me with fetchmail and procmail (as it
> should be).  It just appears in my mua automatically in the specific
> folders processed by procmail.  I use Evolution instead of Thunderbird
> because Evo will access my Mail folders directly without any pop3 or
> imap server.
> 
> my mail setup:  fetchmail run by cron -> procmail to sort my email into
> -> ~/.maildir/ folders in which Maildir folders require no lock file to
> access since each message is it's own single file with unique generated
> filenames.  msmtp called by the commandline or linked to a fake sendmail
> in /usr/lib/sendmail or /usr/bin/sendmail allows Evolution to find msmtp
> without setting anything in Evolution except to tell it to use Sendmail
> to send mail.  Of course I have to setup .msmtprc, but only once.  Save
> all these config files and mail and a list of programs I installed - a
> reinstall is pretty quick too in case of hard drive failure.
> 
> It wasn't that long ago when you had to have some sort of local mta to
> deliver the mail because Linux mua's did not have this feature built in.
> Why should they when all Linux distros had it's own mta installed.
> 
> I just wish Ubuntu would use this type of mail setup as the default
> setup, adding email to an sql database would be a plus too.  And I sure
> miss system notifications!  No mta installed by default makes Linux act
> more like Windows no builtin local mail for security alerts:( - bad
> idea.  Yeah, you got system log, but a watchdog like program via email
> like the old redhat (and all other distros before Ubuntu) provided much
> more info.
> 
> Out of the box and since it is already installed and is the default mail
> client in Ubuntu, I stick with Evolution.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> jay d.
	Well Thunderbird is GUI and that slows it down. I am very old and it is
fast enough for my taste. Also it works with PGP encryption very well
and that is a big plus to me. All my business holdings are using PGP to
keep Obama's big nose and others out of our business.

	So I am happy with Thunderbird, but I did start out with a email in a
Terminal and procmail. It was educational and I was younger.


73 Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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