How do I point a mail client at Microsoft outlook?

[Michael Hennebry]

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Damian Kohlfeld wrote:

> Use the following fetchmail configuration as a template. Replace all

It goes in ~/.fetchmailrc  ?
The command is just
fetchmail
?

> 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

If I omit password 'PASSWORD' it will prompt?

>  options keep fetchall ssl mda "formail -c >> /MBOXPATH/inbox"
>  folder INBOX

"formail -c >> /MBOXPATH/inbox"
is a shell command,
the target is a plain file which need not already exist?
what is the affect of
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

Now I'm really confused.
It looks to me like this would do the same thing again
only with different targets on the client side.

> --- END CONFIG ---
>
> Damian Kohlfeld

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