Ubuntu Unleashed 2019 Edition: Covering 18.04, 18.10, 19.04

no  dns

user    foobar

pass    secretword

fetchall

flush

This file tells Fetchmail to do the following:

    Check   the POP3    server  mail.samplenet.org  for new mail    every

600 seconds.

    Log in  using   the username    foobar  and the password    secretword.

    Download    all messages    from    the server.

    Delete  the messages    from    the server  after   downloading them.

    Send    any mail    it  receives    that    cannot  be  delivered   to  a   local   user    to  the

account foobar.

As mentioned earlier, many more options can be included in the
.fetchmailrc file than are listed here. However, the options offered in
this section will get you up and running with a basic configuration.

For additional flexibility, you can define multiple .fetchmailrc files to
retrieve mail from different remote mail servers while using the same Linux
user account. For example, you can define settings for your most commonly
used account and save them in the default .fetchmailrc file. Mail can
then quickly be retrieved like this:

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matthew@seymour:~$ fetchmail –a
1 message for matthew at mail.matthewhelmke.com (1108 octets).
reading message 1 of 1 (1108 octets) . flushed

By using Fetchmail’s -f option, you can specify an alternative resource file
and then easily retrieve mail from another server, as follows:

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matthew@seymour:~$ fetchmail –f .myothermailrc
2 messages for matthew at matthew.helmke.com (5407 octets).
reading message 1 of 2 (3440 octets) ... flushed
reading message 2 of 2 (1967 octets) . flushed
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/matthew

By using the -d option, along with a time interval (in seconds), you can use
Fetchmail in its daemon, or background, mode. The command launches as a
background process and retrieves mail from a designated remote server at a