Fetching mail with fetchmail

During a domain transfer, while DNS was still propogating I needed to retrieve mail from the old server to the new. I did so thusly… # yum install fetchmail $ touch .fetchmailrc $ chmod 600 .fetchmailc I then added the following lines to .fetchmailrc poll <remote_ip> with proto POP3 user <remoteemail@example.com> there with password “<password>” [...]