BSD Ports

mail/fetchmail 6.5.4 DragonFly

Batch mail retrieval utility for IMAP/POP3/ETRN/ODMR

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv2+
Categories
mail
Package size
459.2 KiB, 1934.0 KiB installed

Description

Fetchmail is a full-featured IMAP/POP2/POP3/APOP/KPOP/ETRN/ODMR client with easy configuration, daemon mode, forwarding via SMTP or local MDA, and superior reply handling. It is used to handle intermittent email connections by acting as a coupling that seamlessly batch forwards fetched mail from your mail server to your local delivery system, allowing you to read it with your favourite mail user agent. Fetchmail also includes useful spam filtering and multi-user functions.

A typical use of fetchmail is to connect to your ISP's POP3 server, downloading your mail into the INBOX on your local computer. You may then read the mail, offline if you want, using pine, mutt, or any standard mail user agent.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlymail/fetchmail6.5.4
FreeBSDmail/fetchmail6.6.9
OpenBSDmail/fetchmail6.6.9
NetBSDmail/fetchmail6.6.2
MidnightBSDmail/fetchmail6.6.6

Install

Binary package:

pkg install fetchmail

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/mail/fetchmail && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 3
Required by 1

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

For pointers how to configure fetchmail in daemon mode
please consult /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail.