Mail Download

[Nefarious]

I want to have a piece of software running on a server that will download all the mail from certain accounts and do so at regular intervals - what's the best piece of software to do this?

I was looking at Mutt but it seems to need user intervention to do this - or can I just leave running in the background?

I also want to be able to back up (tar then write onto DVD) the emails then delete them with as little user intervention as possibe (I was thinking that it could create monthly/quarterly tar files and place them somewhere with a samba share so that a user can back them up). Does this sound like something that could be configured without too much programming? I'm guessing the auto tarring would have to be programmed.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Sounds like Mutt combined with a quick'n'easy perl or bash script set as a cron job would do the trick. I'd be more helpful but my scripting skills are nearly non-esistant.

 

[AndrewP]

Fetchmail would probably do the trick, though you'd need to sort out how the mail was stored (probably just for system users) e.g. in mbox, maildir format, then a few commands scheduled via cron for fetchmail, tar and copying/burning would run things as appropriate.