Fetchmail is a Unix program that will download mail from your LAFN mailbox into your system internal mailbox.  There are two different versions of fetchmail available.  The older ones use SSL on port 995.  The newer ones conform with RFC 2595 and handle SSL on port 110.


<P> To make the older version of fetchmail on Unix computers work with LAFN using SSL you need to setup the following  .fetchmailrc file for those versions:

<PRE>
defaults
        fetchall
        nokeep

set no bouncemail
set properties ""

poll mail.lafn.org
        protocol pop3
        port 995
        user &lt;your user id&gt
        password "your password"
        to &lt;mailbox&gt here
        antispam -1
        ssl

</PRE>

<P>You do need to use your user id, password and mailbox in the file.

<P>The versions of fetchmail from 5.5.9 on will support SSL without having to modify .fetchmailrc.  
<CENTER><P><FONT SIZE=-1>This page last updated: Dec 29, 2004