> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:02:02PM +0100, Robert Schetterer wrote:
>> Am 12.11.2012 11:21, schrieb Muhammad Yousuf Khan:
>>> my questions are
>>> ------------------------
>>> 1.  i have to download email from US mailbox via POP and save it
>>> it down to postfix Local maildir formate, account vise. so i need
>>> to know the utility for that.  because this option is available
>>> in exchange server, mailerdeamon. so i am certain that this would
>>> be available for postfix for maildir formate.
>> forget fetchmail use getmail
> I'll add my +1 to this comment, and throw in a "why POP3?" question.
> Who is your provider, gmail? POP3 should have died out a decade ago.
> The replacement is IMAP, and lo and behold, Getmail as well as every
> other MUA/MUU supports it fully. It's hard to imagine a significant
> mail service which has POP3 but not IMAP service.

> Another thing worth mention: Postfix != MSexchange. The latter is a
> suite of software which implements (misimplements in many cases, it
> seems, although to be fair I think that is more commonly a case of
> administrator incompetence) other protocols to present the user with
> a complete mail server solution.

> Postfix is a MTA (mail transfer agent.) The MTA is just one of many
> parts a complete mail server would require. And perhaps you (the OP,
> I mean) should discuss your ultimate goal here. From what this and
> your other thread showed us, I am doubtful that you want or need a
> MTA at all.

>> http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/

>> config like i.e this

>> [retriever]
>> type = SimplePOP3Retriever
> P.S.: Getmail also supports TLS/SSL. :)