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It seems to me that the fecthmail shipped with Edgy is rather buggy so I’ve just switched to getmail4.

The configuration file to fetch emails from a POP3S server and pass them to procmail is:

[retriever]
type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever
server = xxxxxx.xxxxx.it
username = xxxxx
password = xxxxxxxxxx

[destination]
type = MDA_external
path = /usr/bin/procmail
# unixform is essential
unixfrom = true

which is saved as ~/.getmail/name1.

The configuration file to fetch emails from a POP3 server and store them in a Mboxrd file is:

[retriever]
type = SimplePOP3Retriever
server = xxxxxx.xxxxx.it
username = xxxxx
password = xxxxxxxxxx

[destination]
type = Mboxrd
path = /home/carlo/Mail/name2

which is saved as ~/.getmail/name2.

Don’t forget to chmod 700 ~/.getmail. Finally, to fetch them all I wrote a simple script which is basically a sequence of

getmail -a -d -v -r name1
getmail -a -d -v -r name2


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