push (8) Linux Manual Page
push – fetch mail via POP
Synopsis
[-5 | –krb5 ] [-v | –verbose ] [-f | –fork ] [-l | -leave ] [--from ] [-c | -count ] [--headers = headers ] [-p port-spec | –-port = port-spec ] po-box filename
Description
retrieves mail from the post office box po-box and stores the mail in mbox format in filename The po-box can have any of the following formats:
`hostname:username’`po:hostname:username’`username [at] hostname’`po:username [at] hostname’`hostname’`po:username’
If no username is specified, assumes that it’s the same as on the local machine; hostname defaults to the value of the MAILHOST environment variable.
Supported options:
- –
5–-krb5 -
- use Kerberos 5 (if compiled with support for Kerberos 5)
- –
f–-fork -
- fork before starting to delete messages
- –
l–-leave -
- don’t delete fetched mail
- –
-from -
- behave like from.
- –
c–-count -
- first print how many messages and bytes there are.
- –
-headers =headers -
- a list of comma-separated headers that should get printed.
- –
pport-spec –-port =port-spec -
- use this port instead of the default `kpop’ or `1109′
The default is to first try Kerberos 5 authentication and then, if that fails, Kerberos 4.
Environment
MAILHOST- points to the post office, if no other hostname is specified.
Examples
$ push cornfield:roosta ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box
tries to fetch mail for the user roosta from the post office at “cornfield” and stores the mail in ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box (you are using Gnus, aren’t you?)
$ push --from -5 havregryn
tries to fetch From: lines for current user at post office “havregryn” using Kerberos 5.
See Also
from(1), pfrom(1), movemail(8), popper(8)
History
was written while waiting for movemail to finish getting the mail.