User Options

User options may be placed on their own lines beneath a server option or on the same line as the server option. In either case, the defined options must follow the user option (defined below).

• fetchall - Orders Fetchmail to download all messages in the queue, including messages that have already been viewed. By default, Fetchmail only pulls down new messages.

• fetchlimit <number> - Replace <number> with the number of messages to be retrieved before stopping.
• flush - Deletes all previously viewed messages in the queue before retrieving new messages.
• limit <max-number-bytes> - Replace <max-number-bytes> with the maximum size in bytes that messages are allowed to be when retrieved by Fetchmail. This option is useful with slow network links, when a large message takes too long to download.
• password '<password>' - Replace <password> with the user's password.
• preconnect "<command>" - Replace <command> with a command to be executed before retrieving messages for the user.
• postconnect "<command>" - Replace <command> with a command to be executed after retrieving messages for the user.
• ssl - Activates SSL encryption.
• user "<username>" - Replace <username> with the username used by Fetchmail to retrieve messages. This option must precede all other user options.