[wiki] New article - fdm

Kitty · 2009-12-21 11:33:47

I just added a new article on using fdm to fetch mail and deliver it to the user's local mail dir. It seems this wonderful piece of software is horribly underrated, here's to fixing that.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Loc … y_with_fdm

kgas · 2009-12-21 15:43:35

Nice guide. As the fdm.conf file is stored in the users home directory the configuration file is to be pointed correctly with -f switch. the preference may differ with users to create directory. usually I will put all config file is .config/ in this case .config/fdm/fdm.conf and mail directory is hidden in home ~/.mail. YMMV.

thayer · 2009-12-21 16:03:24

Thanks, I've been meaning to do this as well, but never got around to it.

Kitty · 2009-12-21 18:35:24

After slogging through setting up fetchmail + procmail, I couldn't believe how easy it was to get fdm going.

dedekind · 2010-01-11 00:41:26

Your guide doesn't cover how to set up fdm to deliver local mail and act as a local MTA. According to section 5.7 on the fdm homepage, this should be possible with a special stdin account. Could you or someone else please elaborate on this? Furthermore, most programs that send mail expect a sendmail-like interface—how could I get fdm to work with these programs?

Last edited by dedekind (2010-01-11 00:46:23)

Runiq · 2010-01-11 10:46:40

fdm manual wrote:

fdm is a program to fetch mail and deliver it in various ways depending on a
user-supplied ruleset. Mail may be fetched from stdin, IMAP or POP3 servers (…)

That sounds like it's possible to replace offlineimap with fdm?

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