[ale] How Can I?

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 11:02 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> On Wed, February 22, 2012 10:57 am, Gene Poole wrote:
> > I know I've asked this question in the past, but life got in the way of my
> > computers.
> >
> > So once again:
> >
> > Between my wife and I we must have more that a half-dozen mail accounts
> > scattered around. What I would like to do, but I don't know how, would be
> > to automatically go out there and pull all of our mail messages and add
> > them all to my local mail server and provide a central location where I
> > could read all of my mail for any of my four client machines.  Does anyone
> > know how this could be done? Do you need more information about my
> > environment?

> Try looking into "fetchmail"?

Concur.  I use fetchmail extensively for exactly this purpose.

[ Disclaimer: So says the author of the early fetchmail SSL patches.]

> > Thanks In Advance,
> > Gene
> >
> > + It's impossible for everything to be true. +

> -derek
> 
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>        Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
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>        Computer and Internet Security Consultant

Regards,
Mike
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