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Gmail allows you to tag your mail with a label, which roughly corresponds to an IMAP folder.
In the following example, used under CentOS (yes, I know it is not BSD), I wanted te retrieve mail from my BUP folder from my Gmail account. I use this folder/label to hold a BackUP from configuration files, like Xorg.conf and scripts. Very handy if you install OpenBSD binary snapshots on a regular basis. Fetchmail can be used from the command line, but using a configuration file is much more comfortable. The default name of the configuration file is '.fetchmailrc' Code:
poll imap.gmail.com protocol IMAP user "xxxxxxx@gmail.com" is adriaan here password 'mysecretpassword' folder 'BUP' fetchlimit 1 keep ssl
For initial testing I use 'fetchlimit 1', which only will fetch a single mail. You also can use 'fetchall' After creating the .fetchmailrc file in the home directory, we adjust the permissions: Code:
$ chmod g=,o= .fetchmailrc $ ls -l .fetchmailrc -rw------- 1 adriaan adriaan 149 Jan 24 04:50 .fetchmailrc Running fetchmail with the '-v' option to see any possible problems: Code:
$ fetchmail -v fetchmail: 6.3.6 querying imap.gmail.com (protocol IMAP) at Mon 24 Jan 2011 04:53:13 AM CET: poll started Trying to connect to 209.85.229.109/993...connected. fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Google Inc fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: Google Internet Authority fetchmail: Server CommonName: imap.gmail.com fetchmail: imap.gmail.com key fingerprint: F4:3C:F0:30:6A:03:D4:5B:C8:5B:6E:11:ED:19:1D:A6 fetchmail: IMAP< * OK Gimap ready for requests from 83.163.147.98 l51if3839987wed.40 fetchmail: IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA XLIST CHILDREN XYZZY SASL-IR AUTH=XOAUTH fetchmail: IMAP< A0001 OK Thats all she wrote! l51if3839987wed.40 fetchmail: IMAP> A0002 LOGIN "xxxxxx@gmail.com" * fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1 UIDPLUS COMPRESS=DEFLATE fetchmail: IMAP< A0002 OK xxxxxx@gmail.com authenticated (Success) fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 SELECT "BUP" fetchmail: IMAP< * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen) fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)] fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [UIDVALIDITY 595246558] fetchmail: IMAP< * 262 EXISTS fetchmail: IMAP< * 0 RECENT fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [UIDNEXT 281] fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 OK [READ-WRITE] BUP selected. (Success) fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 SEARCH UNSEEN NOT DELETED fetchmail: IMAP< * SEARCH 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 34 35 37 38 40 42 43 44 49 57 92 93 95 96 111 119 120 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 147 149 150 151 152 154 155 170 172 173 223 243 244 246 257 fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 OK SEARCH completed (Success) 262 messages (205 seen) for xxxxxx@gmail.com at imap.gmail.com (folder BUP). skipping message xxxxxx@gmail.com@gmail-imap.l.google.com:1 not flushed skipping message xxxxxx@gmail.com@gmail-imap.l.google.com:2 not flushed skipping message xxxxxx@gmail.com@gmail-imap.l.google.com:3 not flushed [snip] skipping message xxxxxx@gmail.com@gmail-imap.l.google.com:17 not flushed skipping message xxxxxx@gmail.com@gmail-imap.l.google.com:18 not flushed skipping message xxxxxx@gmail.com@gmail-imap.l.google.com:19 not flushed skipping message xxxxxx@gmail.com@gmail-imap.l.google.com:20 not flushed fetchmail: IMAP> A0005 FETCH 21:120 RFC822.SIZE fetchmail: IMAP< * 21 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 1321) fetchmail: IMAP< * 22 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 2427) fetchmail: IMAP< * 23 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 1892) fetchmail: IMAP< * 24 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 1571) fetchmail: IMAP< * 25 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 2119) [snip] fetchmail: IMAP< * 118 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 27921) fetchmail: IMAP< * 119 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 9195) fetchmail: IMAP< * 120 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 9193) fetchmail: IMAP< A0005 OK Success fetchmail: IMAP> A0006 FETCH 21 RFC822.HEADER fetchmail: IMAP< * 21 FETCH (RFC822.HEADER {916} reading message xxxxxx@gmail.com@gmail-imap.l.google.com:21 of 262 (916 header octets) Code:
Trying to connect to 127.0.0.1/25...connected. fetchmail: SMTP< 220 vintrax.utp.xnet ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.8/8.13.8; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:53:17 +0100 fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO vintrax.utp.xnet fetchmail: SMTP< 250-vintrax.utp.xnet Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING fetchmail: SMTP< 250-8BITMIME fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE fetchmail: SMTP< 250-DSN fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ETRN fetchmail: SMTP< 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 fetchmail: SMTP< 250-DELIVERBY fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<root@xenophanes.utp.xnet> SIZE=1321 fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 <root@xenophanes.utp.xnet>... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<adriaan@localhost> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 <adriaan@localhost>... Recipient ok fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself # fetchmail: IMAP< ) fetchmail: IMAP< A0006 OK Success fetchmail: IMAP> A0007 FETCH 21 BODY.PEEK[TEXT] fetchmail: IMAP< * 21 FETCH (BODY[TEXT] {481} (481 body octets)************************* fetchmail: IMAP< ) fetchmail: IMAP< A0007 OK Success fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 p0O3rHcM004345 Message accepted for delivery not flushed fetchmail: IMAP> A0008 STORE 21 +FLAGS (\Seen) fetchmail: IMAP< * 21 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen)) fetchmail: IMAP< A0008 OK Success fetchmail: fetchlimit 1 reached; 261 messages left on server gmail-imap.l.google.com account xxxxxx@gmail.com fetchmail: IMAP> A0009 LOGOUT fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE LOGOUT Requested fetchmail: IMAP< A0009 OK 73 good day (Success) fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT fetchmail: SMTP< 221 2.0.0 vintrax.utp.xnet closing connection fetchmail: 6.3.6 querying imap.gmail.com (protocol IMAP) at Mon 24 Jan 2011 04:53:18 AM CET: poll completed fetchmail: normal termination, status 0 You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/adriaan.
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Based on the above, I was able to expand the IMAP folders to both Inbox and SentMail and put the emails into #mh format. Leaving out @J65nko's Password line results in 2 sequential prompts for email server access.
Code:
poll mail.spectrum.net proto IMAP port 993 user "*******@spectrum.net" options keep fetchall ssl mda "/usr/local/libexec/nmh/rcvstore +Inbox" poll mail.spectrum.net proto IMAP port 993 user "*******@spectrum.net" folder 'SentMail' options keep fetchall ssl mda "/usr/local/libexec/nmh/rcvstore +SentMail" Code:
$ cat ~/.mh_profile MH-Profile-Version: 1.0 Path: Mail In my first run, authorization for the "SentMail" folder failed ?timedout? I'm considering splitting the Inbox and SentMail entries in to 2 separate configuration file as fetchmail will allow alternate configuration files Code:
fetchmail -f fmail_inboxrc fetchmail -f fmail_sentmailrc mail/offlineimap and mail/isync provide the option to use Maildir format. Of interest opensmtpd natively supports Maildir and has an mda configuration option. Last edited by shep; 14th November 2022 at 01:41 AM. |
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