9.6.2 Fetching mail – Fetchmail
fetchmail is run in daemon mode to fetch mail from a POP3 account
with an ISP into the local mail system. Configure:
/etc/init.d/fetchmail
/etc/rc?.d/???fetchmail run update-rc.d fetchmail default priority 30
/etc/fetchmailrc configuration file (chown 600, owned by fetchmail)
Information on how to start fetchmail as a daemon from the
init.d script for Potato is confusing (Woody fixed this). See the
sample /etc/init.d/fetchmail and /etc/fetchmailrc
files in the
example scripts.
If your email headers are contaminated by ^M due to your ISP's mailer, add
"stripcr" to your options in $HOME/.fetchmailrc:
options fetchall no keep stripcr
