Now, that you have set the RPi to send emails, lets do the next best thing. Setup fetchmail so that we can setup a cron job to run and get us the emails on Raspberry Pi. What can we do with these emails, lots 🙂 (I hope you already have a Raspberry Pi, if not then head over to  element14.)

For now, first install fetchmail:

sudo apt-get install fetchmail

and if you are one of the guys who wants easy configuration then :

sudo apt-get install fetchmailconf

If you are using fetchmailconf, then just fire up “fetchmailconf”. You will get a GUI, where you can configure the setting. If not, then you can create a file “~/.fetchmailrc” which should look something like this:

poll 
protocol IMAP
user "" with password "" mda ""
folder 'INBOX'
fetchlimit 1
# do not delete the mails on server.
keep
# do not re-write the headers for the mail, get saner headers for the script to process.
no rewrite
# use ssl
ssl

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