POP from gmail using fetchmail

Kurt Granroth plug-discuss at granroth.org
Thu Oct 6 12:16:35 MST 2005


On Thursday 06 October 2005 11:24 am, Lynn David Newton wrote:
> Does anyone know the correct way to make POP3 retrieve
> email from a gmail.com account using fetchmail?
[snip]
> A line like this is in my fetchmail configuration file
>
> poll "pop.gmail.com" protocol POP3 : user "NOTMYREALGMAILUSERNAME" there
> with password "NOTMYREALPASSWORD" is "NOTMYREALLOCALUSERNAME" here ;

Just add 'ssl' to that and you should be fine.


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