How can I fetch my Mail from my ISPs Server?

[Michael Harnden]

Quoting Alexander Schröter <webmaster at computational-chemistry.org>:

> Since I am really not able to download the fetchmail file from OpenPKG I
> need to do it with the Debian package.
>
> So here is what I did:
>
> #1 Installed fetchmail.
>
> #2 Added this to the /root/.bashrc
>> export LANG=C
>> opa () {
>>   root="${1:-/kolab}"
>>   if [ ! -d $root ]; then
>>       echo "opa:ERROR: OpenPKG root directory $root not found"
>>       exit 1
>>   fi
>>   if [ ! -f "$root/etc/rc" ]; then
>>       echo "opa:ERROR: root directory does not contain OpenPKG hierarchy"
>>       exit 1
>>   fi
>>   eval `$root/etc/rc --eval all env`
>> }
>
> #3 Created a file /root/.fetchmailrc with:
>> defaults
>> no dns
>> envelope Delivered-To:
>> set postmaster "root"
>> poll <mail.ISPDomain.org>
>> localdomains <mydomain.org>
>> proto pop3
>> user <ISP Username>
>> pass <ISP Password>
>> to *
>> #fetchall
>> keep # For testing, comment out and use fetchall for live
>
> #4 but when I run fetchmail (as root) it seems to find mails and get them
> but they do not get transfered into my kolab users account. This doesn't
> come as a surprise because I never mentioned which user those mails belong
> to.
>
> Could someone help me and maybe explain how I can do this.
>
> Thanks in Alexander Schröter
>
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Someone with more experience may be able to show you (and myself) a  
better way, but this is what my fetchmailrc looks like for each user.

  poll <ISP Server> with proto POP3
  user "<ISP Username>" with pass "<ISP Password>" is <Kolab Username>  
at <Kolab Server Name>
  options fetchall

Mike