I'm looking for a way to configure the email services so that they don't delete the email from my ISP mail server automatically.
I've been looking at configuring fetchmail but can't find a .fetchmailrc file anywhere to see if I can add a --keep option.
Am I on the right track? Any help appreciated.
M
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Email configuration
Cheeseboy - many thanks. All sorted.
If anyone else wants to do this:
you need to be root to edit /etc/fetchmailrc
append "uidl" to the end of the mail-server line which begins "poll" to make fetchmail only retrieve e-mails with unique identifiers - otherwise it picks up all the e-mails every time it polls the server
append the word "keep" to the end of every line which begins "user" for all of the users you want to keep email on the ISP server for.
It can make a mess of the fields in the mail service web-admin page, but that doesn't matter once you can configure things the grown-up way...
Toot toot!
M
If anyone else wants to do this:
you need to be root to edit /etc/fetchmailrc
append "uidl" to the end of the mail-server line which begins "poll" to make fetchmail only retrieve e-mails with unique identifiers - otherwise it picks up all the e-mails every time it polls the server
append the word "keep" to the end of every line which begins "user" for all of the users you want to keep email on the ISP server for.
It can make a mess of the fields in the mail service web-admin page, but that doesn't matter once you can configure things the grown-up way...
Toot toot!
M