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How can I fetch remote POP messages and inject them in the local server?
What is fetchmail used for?

Mar 3rd, 2000 08:09
Dave Sill, Nathan Wallace, http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#fetchmail


fetchmail is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility; it fetches mail
from remote mailservers and forwards it to your local (client) machine's
delivery system. The fetchmail utility can be run in a daemon mode to
repeatedly poll one or more systems at a specified interval.
Read more with:
   man fetchmail