# fetchmail control file sample # # This file (or one of your own creation, rather) should be located # in your home directory with the name .fetchrc. Permissions on this # file may be no greater than -rw-------, or fetchmail will refuse to # use it. # # To see what effect your ~/.fetchrc file has, do # # fetchmail --version # # This will display the fetchmail version number and an explanation # in English of what the currently set options and defaults mean. # # Comments begin with a '#' and extend through the end of the line. # Blank lines between server entries are ignored. # Keywords and identifiers are case sensitive. # When there is a conflict between the command-line arguments and the # arguments in this file, the command-line arguments take precedence. # # Legal keywords are # server # protocol (or proto) # username (or user) # password (or pass) # rpopid # remotefolder (or remote) # localfolder (or local) # mda # smtphost (or smtp) # keep # flush # fetchall # rewrite # explicit # nokeep # noflush # nofetchall # norewrite # noexplicit # port # # Legal protocol identifiers are # pop2 (or POP2) # pop3 (or POP3) # imap (or IMAP) # apop (or APOP) # rpop (or RPOP) # # Basic format is # server SERVERNAME protocol PROTOCOL username NAME password PASSWORD # Example: # server pop.provider.net protocol pop3 username jsmith password secret1 # Or, using some abbreviations: # server pop.provider.net proto pop3 user jsmith password secret1 # Multiple servers may be listed # server pop.provider.net proto pop3 user jsmith password secret1 server other.provider.net proto pop2 user John.Smith password My^Hat # Other possibilities (note use of \ to escape newline -- this is all # one server definition. server pop.provider.net \ proto pop3 \ user jsmith \ pass secret1 \ localfolder ~/mbox