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Gmail with Fetchmail

If you have a Gmail account and would like to use it in conjunction with your personal computers, this tutorial will walk you through configuring and installing the latest version of Postfix with SASL authentication and TLS encryption necessary for connecting and relaying mail to smtp.gmail.com and configuring fetchmail with STARTTLS to fetch messages from your Gmail account to your local system.

freshmeat.net: Tutorials – Gmail on Home Linux Boxes using Postfix and Fetchmail

Very useful indeed. Saved me a lot of time to configure my home server to fetch the mails automatically from Gmail.

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