Re: [Evolution] fetchmail

[Jon Trowbridge <trow ximian com>]

On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 17:42, Arren Mund wrote:
> does anyone know if it's possible to setup fetchmail to get my mail and
> put it in my evolution mail folders s.t. it's compatible?  i would like
> to get kerberize my mail instead of just clear text passwords, and
> compiling kerberos into evolution proved to fail horribly.

I use fetchmail + evolution, and it works very nicely.

First, set up fetchmail to drop your incoming mail into mboxes somewhere
convenient.  Next, create mbox-based accounts in Evolution that use
"local delivery" to receive messages, using those mboxes instead of the
default /var/spool/mail/yourname.

Downloading mail becomes a two-step process.  First run fetchmail from a
shell, and then hit "Send / Receive" to pull the downloaded messages
into Evolution.

-JT