External Pop3

[mark_man]

Hi,

My email box is getting filled up pretty quickly, and so i am trying to offload the mail from webmail into my local linux box. I was wondering if there is some sort of auto retrieval of external POP3 accounts? I have tried fetchmail, however it appends emails, making it extremly hard to read. Does anyone know of another program?

[mark_man]

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[FewClues]

Hi,

My email box is getting filled up pretty quickly, and so i am trying to offload the mail from webmail into my local linux box. I was wondering if there is some sort of auto retrieval of external POP3 accounts? I have tried fetchmail, however it appends emails, making it extremly hard to read. Does anyone know of another program?

SuSE comes with Evolution email client. Configure it to retrieve your web mail. If you are pulling from Gmail or one of the public freebies make sure to set the allow pop under settings. Then simply press the send receive and pull your mail - everything in the inbox will come to you.

Hope that is what you needed!

FewClues

[mark_man]

thanks for the reply. What i am looking for is a program that will get the email from my external pop3 account like gmail, and make a copy of the mail in my hard drive. The program should also be able to do this automatically. Anyone have any suggestions?

[rcgreen]

This may not be the simplest solution, but if you run sendmail on your local
machine, and a pop server, you can let fetchmail fetch the mail, and point your mail client to
your own pop server, running on your own box.