this is obsolete doc -- see http://doc.nethence.com/ instead

Fetchmail configuration 

http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/mail/fetchmail.html 

http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/mail/getmail.html 

http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/mail/procmail.html 

Installation 

Make sure Fetchmail and eventually Procmail are installed, 

rpm -q \

fetchmail \

procmail

#pkg_info | grep fetchmail

Configuration 

As user, configure fetchmail, 

cd ~/

vi .fetchmailrc

like e.g., 

set postmaster "exampleuser"

set nobouncemail

#5 minutes interval,

#set daemon 300

#set logfile $HOME/.fetchmailrc.log

poll POP3SERVER proto pop3

  user "USERNAME"

  password "PASSWORD"

  keep

  mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f - -m $HOME/.procmailrc"

  #fetchall

Note. if you really need to keep the messages on the server, there's a tool in contrib (untar fetchmail's source) : delete-after 

Fix the perms, 

cd ~/

chmod 600 .fetchmailrc

Usage 

Run fetchmail, 

fetchmail

Once everything works you can enable daemon mode. Uncomment daemon and logfile lines, 

  #5 minutes interval,

set daemon 300

set logfile $HOME/.fetchmailrc.log

Usage with Cygwin 

Note on windows/cygwin, 

cygrunsrv.exe --install fetchmail \

  --path /usr/bin/fetchmail \

  --env HOME=$HOME \

  --user "NTUSER" \

  --args '--nodetach' \

  --shutdown

Note. the password for NTUSER will be asked twice. 

Note. alternatively, 

  --user "$USERDOMAIN\\$USERNAME"

Ref. '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/fetchmail-*.README' 

Then go to Windows services administration and check it, 

Start > Execute > services.msc

(go down to "fetchmail") > right click > properties > automaticly

Other POP utilities 

Getmail : http://pbraun.nethence.com/doc/mail/getmail.html 

Retchmail : http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=RetchMail 

Cleanpop : http://cleanpop.sourceforge.net/ 

Popselect 

Mpop 

Poppy