README.md

fetchmail container

fetchmail retrievs mails and forwards them; it fetches the mail from remote IMAP or POP3 servers and forwards them to your local machine.

• Guide
  • Run a new fetchmail instance
  • Data persistence
  • Fetchmail documentation
• Supported environment variables
• Configuration file

Guide

Run a new fetchmail instance

This fetchmail container requires a fetchmailrc configuration file provided by the user.

The command to run this container is:

podman run -d --rm --name fetchmail -v /etc/fetchmailrc:/etc/fetchmailrc:ro registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/fetchmail

Data persistence

fetchmail does not store anything local, but forwards all emails to a local mail system.

Fetchmail documentation

To read the current fetchmail documentation:

podman run registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/fetchmail man fetchmail

Supported environment variables:

• DEBUG=0|1 Enables debug mode
• TZ Timezone to use
• POLLING_INTERVAL Interval to poll for new mails, default is 600
• FETCHALL=[0|1] Retrieve both old (seen) and new messages, default 1
• SILENT=[0|1] Suppresses all progress/status messages
• SMTP_HOSTS Comma seprated list of hosts to forward mail to

Configuration file

• /etc/fetchmailrc Configuration file for fetchmail