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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I can’t provide a reference but I heard that Sir Winston Churchill, talking about Italians, once said:
They fight wars as if they were playing and they play as if they were fighting.
Undeniably true, Sir: you all won two World Wars and just one World Cup :).
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I’ve just added The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics to my library: it’s a really wonderful book with great illustrations. I got upset at first because I was not able to find Across the Universe which is one of my favourite Beatles songs but later I found it with an illustration by Alan Aldridge.
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He is the man_of_the_day because he was kind enough to call me so many years after having graduated.
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I set up a new toy: http://planet.linux.it/ :).
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I’m not English but I wrote this simple Constrained writing sentence that uses two words with the same pronunciation and a third that sounds close to the first couple:
All of us have a hole in our own whole life.
Don’t hesitate to write to me your Constrained writing examples.
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Esattamente venti anni fa, accaddero due cose davvero rare: la prima è che mi ritrovai per qualche minuto a guardare il Festival di Sanremo, la seconda è che, durante quella serata, ad un certo punto apparve sul palcoscenico Pippo Baudo, con un’espressione del volto di una gravità assoluta che mi spaventò veramente e, nei due terribili secondi di silenzio che trascorsero prima che parlasse, pensai seriamente “Deve essere capitato qualcosa di tremendo… forse stavolta siamo passati a Defcon 1“.
Poi Baudo, finalmente, parlò e non dimenticherò mai le sue parole. Disse: “E’ morto Claudio Villa”.
Ma v….
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This post describes what I’ve done to let my mobile phone connect to the Internet using PPP over GPRS on GNU/Linux.
This tim_gprs_bt is a Bash script that sets up the serial cable over Bluetooth and starts pppd.
This tim file is the sequence of AT commands sent to the GPRS modem.
On the mobile (I use a Sony-Ericsson K700i K800i) I set up the following GPRS Account.
External ID: 3
APN: ibox.tim.it
Username: 335XXXXXXX
Password: XXXXXX
Password request: Off
Allow calls: Automatic
IP address: ...
DNS address: ...
Normal
Data compression: Off
Header compr.: Off
Update (2007-03-10) everything works with my new K800i (I’ve just changed 3 with 4 as External ID on the account and on the tim file).
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