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local email storage syncing to imap - mutt-friendly

Summary My problem: I want to read email offline with my choice of client (mutt), but I want actions like moving emails, etc. to be kept in two-way snc with an imap server. My question: Is there a ...
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How to stop Fetchmail marking messages as read

When fetchmail checks my IMAP inbox, it downloads any unread messages and removes the message 'unread' flag on the mail server. Is there a way to have fetchmail download new messages without marking ...
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Modify an incoming mail from text/plain to text/html

I'm using mutt to process my mail. There is one sender which declares the wrong content type. The mail arrives with Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=--… and has two parts. They are ...
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Setup Fetchmail, Procmail and Dovecot in Fedora [closed]

I'm looking for a very good tutorial to setup fetchmail, procmail and dovecot in my Fedora box. My mail server is Exchange 2010. I would really appreciate any help. Thanks, Karthik
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Running fetchmail with Socks proxy

I checked the manual of fetchmail, all it mentioned was SOCKS_CONF, but what is the format of that config file? And how do I know if my fetchmail is configured with --with-socks, fetchmail -V doesn't ...
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Make fetchmail leave mail on server for a specified period of time?

I know that fetchmail can be configured to leave mail on the server (usually done with the keep uidl keyword combination), but is there a way to configure it to leave mail on the server for a ...
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fetchmail to log complete messages AND pass to mda

I couldn't seem to tell from the fetchmail man page or http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-man.html#7 whether --bsmtp <filename>.bsmtp.log, applied from cli/cronjob, and --mda ...
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Error with fetchmail and SSL certificates

I have a problem configuring my mail client on my Mac OS 10.6.8. These were the steps I did: # touch ~/.fetchmailrc I edited the file and created the contents: poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 ...
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add “check if fetchmail is running” to this script

while ! postqueue -p | grep -q empty; do sleep 1 done killall wvdial this script checks if my mail queue is empty, then disconnects my modem. now i would like to add also a checking to fetchmail ...
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Why can't I echo the password to fetchmail?

I'm trying to configure a fetchmail. Before I deal with the syntax of fetchmailrc ( I discovered that the level of bugginess of a problem is synergistic with the number of different aspects of the ...
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How to specify the inbox for fetchmail?

I'm setting up a system calling fetchmail from the commandline and specifying that the mail be stored in a specific file which is not /var/spool/mail/$USERNAME.
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Fetchmail move fetched mail to backup folder

At the moment, I have my .fetchmailrc configured to keep a copy on the mailserver. However, it would be nice to move these copies to an imap folder on the server. I believe this would not be possible ...
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how to configure mutt as email client in linux for a remote microsoft exchange server?

I have a windows xp laptop that has ms-outlook 2007. i didnt have to do anything to set it up. i connected my laptop to office network and it picked up all settings by itself. Now i want to dump this ...
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How to fetch and process mail in order to execute commands?

I administer a home server, and sometimes when I'm out I need to execute some simple commands on the server. 3G + SSH is not an option because it's too expensive from my phone (here in Argentina). It ...
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Fetching email automatically then reading it locally

My email is kept on a remote server and accessible from anywhere by IMAP. What I'd like is a mail client that will periodically sync that remote mail to my laptop in the backgroun, so that when I ...
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Does fetchmail support these IMAP features? If so, how?

I'm studying and learning about how mail is handled in linux systems, and one thing has become a source of confusion for me. On my iPhone, via IMAP, I can mark a message in my Gmail inbox as read, or ...
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Connecting fetchmail (or another MRA) to Exchange

I currently use fetchmail as my MRA, using IMAP to connect to my office's Exchange 2007 server. Unfortunately, IT is disabling POP3 and IMAP access soon. Does fetchmail support connecting to Exchange ...
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fetchmail without an mda

I would like to retrieve mail from a server using fetchmail and have it deposit it directly into an mailbox/repository and not hand it off to a mda. Is this possible? How? In the alternate, is there ...