Fetch mail utility fro HP-UX 11.00

[Bolek Mynarski]

Is there an equivalent of Linux's "fetchmail" utility that would enable me to retrieve remote mail to my local sendmail's mailbox?

I am writing a script that has to perform some action upon arrival an e-mail to my local HP server. I then, go and grab appropriate info from it and do something else. Here is a catch:

The company we deal with sends it to our Exchange mail server and has not direct access to our UNIX boxes (behind a firewall).

Exchange itself does not have "forward" capabilities because once mail arrives to an addressee, it simply sits in the mail box and no further action is taken. You have to use a client (such as MS Exchange client or Outlook) to retrieve it.

We had a consultant write a Java servlet that would simply constantly check MS Exchange mail box for any new arrivals. I want to eliminate it and do it all on the UNIX site because everything else is done there.

On Linux, I can do it easily because I have a utility called "fetchmail" which does just what I want (but because this is not on the list of "officially" supported platforms, I can't go around advocating using it). So, before I turn to using Linux, I want to find out if there are any "native" utilities to HP that would give me the same capabilities.

Is there such a utility?

Thanks.

[Andreas Voss · Accepted solution]

Hi,

here the download site for fetchmail:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/Mail/fetchmail-5.4.3/

Regards