Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fetchmail to procmail (or something) to arbitrary dir?

[Dan Farrell]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:21:00 -0800
Michael Higgins <linux@×××××××.org> wrote:

> Hello, OT post here, but:
>
> I (the office, actually) have this lousy ISP that sells mailboxes
> limited to 50MB. Whatever, I can't change that just now.
>
> I have need to keep all mail in one place... for safekeeping, mostly.
> 50MB is not enough and I get a quota warning.
>
> So, knowing this situation is BS, I thought, what's the quickest and
> dirtiest way (short of hacking up another perl script) that I can make
> this just go away, without losing that backup storage?
>
> Anyway, I puzzled a bit and decided 'fetchmail' sounds pretty good,
> pretty much what I want to do here. But, it needs sendmail...?? I
> don't want a MTA on this box. So, I see 'procmail' is an alternative
> target. Hmm.
>
> I see the process as, getting a quota warning and then running
> 'fetchmail' as a user. It worked, but not how I want.
>
> I got the mail off the server, but now it's in my 'own' .maildir
> folder. As I will need to set up a dump folder for a bunch of
> different accounts, this won't do.
>
> So, what part did I miss about setting the MAILDIR? For some reason my
> config selected the 'DEFAULT'. How can I set up multiple procmail
> targets and choose which one I want based on the .fetchmailrc?
>
> (Yeah, I don't want to actually learn procmail rules or anything.)
>
> poll pop.lousyfreakinisp.com protocol POP3
> user "job@××××.com" password "job" fetchall
>        mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
>
> Or, is there some other more lightweight brainless set-and-forget way
> I can approach this? Quota-warning->dumpALLpop3email to local folders
> one each for six or seven email accounts? Without setting up new
> users?
>
> I don't really even care what the format of the folder is, just that
> it isn't the multi-gigabyte .pst files everyone else has. Would
> rcvstore[?] work?
>
> Cheers,
>


If you don't want to run an email server, or at least offer pop or imap
access to users' maildirs, your only real choice is to use a mail
client.  

use eg claws or thunderbird to pop off your isp's server and store it
locally.  not as flexible as a server, but the next best thing.
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