How do I point a mail client at Microsoft outlook?

[Damian Kohlfeld]

>From your subject line it looks like you want to open the files with an
email client.   I usually use fetchmail in perl to process my pop account
used for helpdesk management, but I found this which should help you, you
can use foremail which is from procmail to form the mbox type files which
you can open up with an email client.  In your fetchmail rc file, put in the
following config with these directions from another users suggestion, just
found this on a quick google, hope this helps.

Use the following fetchmail configuration as a template. Replace all
USERNAME with your unix user account name, all PASSWORD with the password
for that IMAP account, all IMAPUSER with the IMAP username, all MAILHOST
with the IMAP serverhostname and finally all MBOXPATH your mbox (absolute)
filenames.

--- BEGIN CONFIG ---

set postmaster "USERNAME"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set softbounce
set properties ""
set no showdots

poll MAILHOST with proto IMAP
  user 'IMAPUSER' there with password 'PASSWORD' is 'USERNAME' here
  options keep fetchall ssl mda "formail -c >> /MBOXPATH/inbox"
  folder INBOX

poll MAILHOST with proto IMAP
  user 'IMAPUSER' there with password 'PASSWORD' is 'USERNAME' here
  options keep fetchall ssl mda "formail -c >> /MBOXPATH/sent"
  folder INBOX.Sent

--- END CONFIG ---

Damian Kohlfeld

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org
[mailto:users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Michael Hennebry
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 11:46 PM
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: Re: How do I point a mail client at Microsoft outlook?

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> Could someone translate the following information into a fetchmail
command?
>
>     * Account type: IMAP
>     * Incoming mail server: imap.ndsu.nodak.edu
>     * Incoming mail server encryption: SSL on port 993
>     * Outgoing mail server: smtp.ndsu.nodak.edu
>     * Outgoing mail server encryption: TLS on port 587
>     * Username: Your NDSU Electronic ID
>     * Password: Your NDSU Password
>
> If willing, please put --keep in the correct location.
> I did manage to get some information from the man page.

Would the command end with imap.ndsu.nodak.edu ?

fetchmail man page:
> fetchmail [option...] [mailserver...]

imap.ndsu.nodak.edu would be [mailserver...] ?

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