retchmail.conf - RetchMail configuration file

When retchmail starts, it first loads its configuration from $HOME/.retchmail/retchmail.conf, which contains basic information about all of the various accounts and servers that you want to download your mail from, and deliver your mail to. The configuration file $HOME/.retchmail/retchmail.conf is in Windows "ini" file format, with sections named in square brackets and a number of variable = value pairs within each section. Here is a sample configuration file:

[POP Servers]

testuser@example.com = password

[POP Targets]

testuser@example.com = localuser

The sample configuration file above contains all of the options necessary to run retchmail to automatically deliver mail from testuser@example.com to localuser. when retchmail is invoked.

If you want retchmail to use SSL to encrypt all of the traffic between it and your POP server, then it's as easy as adding :995 to the POP Servers account name as follows:

[POP Servers]

testuser@example.com:995 = password

[POP Targets]

testuser@example.com:995 = localuser

If you wish to have retchmail use a mail delivery agent (MDA) other then sendmail to deliver your mail you may also add a MDA Override option to your config file as follows:

[POP Servers]

testuser@example.com = password

[MDA Override]

testuser@example.com = qmail

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Avery Pennarun and Patrick Patterson for Net Integration Technologies Inc., as part of the NetIntegrator project.