Retrieving Emails From Remote Servers With fetchmail (Debian Etch) | Linux Today

Retrieving Emails From Remote Servers With fetchmail (Debian Etch)

Written By
FT
Falko Timme
Jun 5, 2007

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“Or imagine you have an email account at a provider
that doesn’t do spam- and virus filtering. In that case you could
use fetchmail to download the mails to your own server and pipe
them through spam- and virus filters (e.g. SpamAssassin and ClamAV)
before you download the mails with your email client.”

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Falko Timme

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