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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