-These are scripts to help you running fetchmail in special situations.
-Note: you're on your own using these -- I don't really understand them,
-I'm just passing them along.
- --esr
+These are scripts or configuration snippets to help you running
+fetchmail in special situations.
-0*.html:
+Note: you're on your own using these -- the fetchmail team undertakes no
+efforts in understanding them, they are just passing them along.
+ --esr, ma
+
+This file is currently unsorted. Use your pager's search function when
+looking for the description of a particular file in this directory. --ma
+
+### 0*.html:
Messages from the archives of the old fetchmail-friends mailing list,
for off-line reading.
-maildaemon:
-
+### maildaemon:
Larry Fahnoe wrote this for driving fetchmail from cron. It may be useful if
you want to force a PPP link up and then poll for mail at specified times.
I have rearranged it slightly to make it easier to configure.
-novell:
+### novell:
Some mail from Dan Newcombe describing how to write a procmail rule that
will domainify Novell server names.
-login & logout:
+### login & logout:
These are intended to help if you typically have multiple logins active.
Here's the script composer's original README:
/usr/bin/fetchmail -q > /dev/null 2>&1
fi
-ip-up:
+### ip-up:
A note from James Stevens about using fetchmail in an ip-up script without
disabling timeouts.
-runfetchmail:
+### runfetchmail:
A shellscript front end for fetchmail that mails you various statistics on
the downloaded mail and the state of your folders. A good example of what
you can do with your own front end.
-fetchspool:
+### fetchspool:
If you find that the speed of forwarding to port 25 is limited by the
SMTP listener's speed, it may make sense to locally spool all the mail
This shellscript aims to do exactly that. It would be smarter to
figure out why sendmail is slow, however.
-fetchsetup:
+### fetchsetup:
This is a shell script for creating a $HOME/.fetchmailrc file, it will ask
you some questions and based on your answers it will create a .fetchmailrc
-file, fetchsetup is linux specific so it may not work on another operating
+file. fetchsetup is linux specific so it may not work on another operating
system.
-mailqueue.pl:
+### mailqueue.pl:
-This script will connect to your isp (if not already connected),
+This script will connect to your ISP (if not already connected),
send any outgoing mail and retrieve any incoming mail. If this
program made the connection, it will also break the connection
when it is done. By Bill Adams, <bill@evil.inetarena.com>. The
latest version is carried at <http://evil.inetarena.com/>.
-redhat_rc:
+### redhat_rc:
A fetchmail boot-time init file compatible with RedHat 5.1. It leaves
fetchmail in background to get messages when you connect to your ISP.
The invoked fetchmail expects to find its configuration in
/etc/fetchmailrc, and must include the proper "interface" directive.
-debian_rc:
+### debian_rc:
A fetchmail boot-time init file compatible with Debian. It leaves
fetchmail in background to get messages when you connect to your ISP.
The invoked fetchmail expects to find its configuration in
/root/.fetchmailrc, and must include the proper "interface" directive.
-start_dynamic_ppp:
+Matthias Andree adds: note that current Debian packages (as of January
+2007) ship with their own init files.
+
+### start_dynamic_ppp:
An admittedly scratchy ip-up script that Ryan Murray wrote to cope with
dynamic PPP addressing. Will need some customizing.
http://www.inetarena.com/~badams/linux/programs/mailqueue.pl
-getfetchmail:
+### getfetchmail:
Here's a script that gets Eric's most recent fetchmail source rpm,
downloads it and (if the rpm's not broken) rebuilds it.
The script as written works on bash 2. By John Summerfield
<summer@os2.ami.com.au>.
-zsh-completion:
+### zsh-completion:
These commands set up command completion for fetchmail under zsh.
Jay Kominek <jay.kominek@colorado.edu>.
-getmail/gotmail:
+### getmail/gotmail:
These scripts are front ends for fetchmail in daemon mode that can gather
log statistics and generate text or HTML reports. See README.getmail for
details. Scripts by Thomas Nesges <ThomaNesges@TNT-Computer.de>.
-fetchmaildistrib:
+### fetchmaildistrib:
This script resolves the issue where the sysadmin polls for mail with fetchmail
only at set intervals, but where a user wishes to see his email right
script is run to distribute the stuff into all user's ~/.fetchmailrc
files.
-multidrop:
+### multidrop:
Martijn Lievaart's sendmail hacks to make multidrop reliable.
-domino:
+### domino:
Gustavo Chaves <gustavo@cpqd.com.br> wrote this script to deal with
the boundary-mismatch bug in Domino (see FAQ item X5). If you use
this with --mda, the broken boundaries will be fixed and the result
passed to procmail.
-toprocmail:
+### toprocmail:
John Lim Eng Hooi <jleh@mail.com> wrote this script, yet another
mda plugin, to be used with fetchmail in foreground mode. It displays
some header lines to stdout in color, passing them (and the rest of the
message content) to procmail.
-preauth-harness:
+### preauth-harness:
Emmanuel Dreyfus's Perl test script for exercising IMAP PREAUTH
connections. You'll have to patch in your username and password.
-sm-hybrid:
+### sm-hybrid:
Peter 'Rattacresh' Backes sent this patch to improve the behavior of
sendmail 8.11.0 with multidrop.
-fetchmailnochda.pl
+### fetchmailnochda.pl
Watchdog script to check whether fetchmail is working in daemon mode.
-mold-remover.py
+### mold-remover.py
A short python script to remove old read mail from a pop3 mailserver.
-Dovetails with fetchmail with keep option.
-Run it as a cron job...
+Dovetails with fetchmail with keep option. Run it as a cron job.
-PopDel.py
+### PopDel.py
PopDel stands for Pop Delete; this program deletes selected email from a
pop mail server. (By Richard Harris, improved by Joshua Crawford.)
+
+### fetchmail.logrotate (added 2007-01-14, --ma)
+
+A logrotate configuration file developped by Daniel Leidert for Debian,
+when he wanted to use /var/log/fetchmail instead of the usual syslog.
+It probably needs to be adjusted for use on other systems.
+
+### delete-later (added 2007-03-17, --ma)
+
+A MySQL/Tcl/Expect-based client-side script to remove messages at a
+certain age. See delete-later.README for details.
+(By Carsten Ralle, Yoo GmbH, Germany.)
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