From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eastrmmtao101.cox.net ([68.230.240.7]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1JJy7k-0004RA-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:36:08 -0500 Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20080129213537.IXFK129.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:35:37 -0500 Received: from duro ([98.160.122.119]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id j9aN1Y00D2agCYa0000000; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:34:23 -0500 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Fetchmail.rc question References: From: cmbrannon@cox.net (C.M. Brannon) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:32:28 -0600 In-Reply-To: (dan Murphy's message of "Tue\, 29 Jan 2008 16\:06\:45 -0500 \(EST\)") Message-ID: <87sl0g8gib.fsf@cox.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:36:08 -0000 dan Murphy writes: > Does anyone know how a .fetchmail.rc file would be written to access > gmail? I saw some discussion about that here last fall, but didn't take > note of it. gmail uses pop3, so you'd use the same style of .fetchmailrc that you use with any other pop3 provider. gmail also supports pop3 over SSL / TLS, and I use that instead of plain old unencrypted pop3. You may also have to enable POP in your gmail settings page, if it isn't already enabled. Personally, I use getmail instead of fetchmail. It's less complicated, doesn't require an SMTP server, and is written in python. Fetchmail is written in C, and there are plenty of exploits for it. Here's a copy of my .getmailrc file: ===begin getmailrc=== [options] delete = 1 [retriever] type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever server = pop.gmail.com username = cmbrannon79 password = VerySecretPassword [destination] type = MDA_external path = /usr/bin/procmail arguments = ("-f", "%(sender)") user = chrbran ===end getmailrc=== Most of this should be pretty self-explanatory. The [destination] section of the config file tells getmail to pass incoming messages to procmail, delivering them to chrbran (which is the name of my user account). This should all translate nicely to fetchmailrc syntax, if need be. HTH, -- Chris