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What replaces /etc/services in openSUSE, and how
Since Jetchisel will not turn his comment into an answer, I am doing it here,
with more details.
Warning: I am not an expert on these issues and this is only to make available
whatever understanding ...
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procmail returning with exit code 0 even if it can't read its config file: How to prevent?
If Procmail returns success, it successfully delivered the messages somewhere, though apparently not where you wanted it to. A failure would occur when it runs out of fallbacks and can't deliver ...
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Procmail cyrillic conversion
Looks like you're talking about RFC 2047: MIME encoding for email headers. Further RFCs have since then augmented this RFC to allow more character sets and to optionally include a language ...
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What is the meaning of %F, %T, and %s in fetchmail's mda option?
The procmail option -f takes the sender's address as argument, so %F most be the "from-address".
The procmail option -d takes the recipient's address as argument, so %T must be the "to-...
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Fetchmail fails to deliver mail locally due to enforced STARTTLS
Had the same problem and found this solution from Mr Postfix himself:
/etc/postfix/master.cf:
192.168.1.1:smtp inet n - - - - smtpd
127.0.0.1:smtp inet n - ...
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Retrieve mails of only one specific account with fetchmail
You can give each account a different name and use the via option
eg
poll foo via pop.gmail.com ...
poll bar via pop.gmail.com ...
Now you can specify each one on the command line; fetchmail foo ...
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Where does fetchmail store e-mails?
Looking at the log file, you're not successfully delivering the messages with SMTP:
fetchmail: Connection errors for this poll: name 0: connection to
localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection ...
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Fetchmail won't run as daemon
I figured it out. First, I went to /usr/lib/systemd/system/fetchmail.service and changed the ExecStart line to:
ExecStart=/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 60 --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmailrc.
Then I changed ...
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procmail returning with exit code 0 even if it can't read its config file: How to prevent?
In this case, I'd write a wrapper shell script that wraps around the "/usr/bin/procmail TARGET=user1 /etc/fetchmail/procmailrc" call but performs the config file permissions check beforehand....
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Downloading an attachment from Inbox using the command-line
I would suggest mutt. Install mutt, procmail and fetchmail. Mails will be stored here by default $HOME/Mail/ (your maildir; create). Help to setup Gmail in mutt. Setup fetchmail, procmail create an ...
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Download big imap directory to maildir
Two other options:
offlineimap if you're using python3 make sure you get version 8.0.0 upward. Can also migrate from one gmail account to another without losing labels
getmail6
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O365 attempting to use fetchmail to poll emails to local postfix/dovecot mails server
Davmail will give you an IMAP/POP3 → M365 Exchange Online interface with OAuth (Modern Authentication). It's a Java application, but you can use Amazon Corretto rather than Oracle Java to avoid ...
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How do I setup email on FreeBSD?
Mail is already set up for you on FreeBSD by default using sendmail. As always, such documentation can be found in The FreeBSD Handbook
My company and my personal email are all done using sendmail ...
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How do I setup email on FreeBSD?
MTA is a Mail Transfer Agent. Exim, Postfix and Sendmail are examples of that. If you want to use GMail then you do not need your own MTA. The MTA is a server which "speaks" SMTP and handles delivery.
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fetchmail not honouring daemon time
Many POP3 servers "discourage" too frequent polling.
https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/49721/what-is-the-maximum-frequency-for-checking-email-in-gmail-and-are-there-alterna
IMAP with ...
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fetchmail: mail gets lost for some accounts
Before the erratic behaviour, I had set up an mda ... line at the end of my .fetchmailrc, and for some reason I don't know yet, this was applied to all of my accounts.
The problem I experienced was ...
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