# fetchmail control file sample (remove this header comment from yours!) # # This file (or one of your own creation, rather) should be located # in your home directory with the name .fetchmailrc. Permissions on this # file may be no greater than -rw------- (0600), or fetchmail will refuse to # use it. # # To see what effect your ~/.fetchmailrc 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. # # The run control file format is fully described (with more examples) on the # fetchmail manual page. # # This is what the former developer's .fetchmailrc looks like: set daemon 300 # Sleep 300 seconds after the poll, then poll again. defaults # only poll when the sl0 interface is up (only available on some systems) interface "sl0/10.0.2.15" # SLIRP standard address # log in with name "esr" and do multidrop fetch for the users # esr, fetchmail-friends, and magic-numbers user esr is esr fetchmail-friends magic-numbers here # fetch (and delete after retrieval) all messages fetchall # Use this for production poll imap.example.org protocol IMAP: # do not use MX lookups to check of server aliases, but pass # them explicitly: no dns, aka snark.thyrsus.com thyrsus.com locke.example.org example.org password my_remote_password; # Use this to test POP3 skip pop3.example.org with protocol APOP: # do not use MX lookups to check of server aliases, but pass # them explicitly: no dns, aka snark.thyrsus.com thyrsus.com locke.example.org example.org password my_apop_secret; # Use this to test against a different server - it is skipped unless # you give its name on fetchmail's command line. skip pop3.netaxs.com: password my_netaxs.password;