UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

fetchmail is just an mail client that does all the popular main transfer client protocols (pop/imap/etc)

it would be best to have gmail forward the messages to yahoo, fetchmail wont do what you want it to (other than some crazy fetchmail | filter | sendmail type script, which is out of your reach it seems, no offense)

fetchmail --smtphost outboundserver --smtpname user@yahoo.com

does sound like what you want to do however.

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Cool so on the outbound server can I give that my username and password as parameters? (gmails smtp requires it)

fetchmail wont care about outbound passwords, its just wanting to know who to send these emails to and who the smtp server is (same as you would for setting up Mail.app and writing a letter and manually forwarding emails)

Still better to setup gmail to forward these emails automatically.

Your right it would be easier to just forward them via gmail but I don't have the option to forward them in plain text

Unfortunately gmail required smtp username and passwords :-(

Not sure what you mean that gmail requires user/pass, as gmail will truly forward the emails to yahoo.com (setup a filter that says all emails from *unix.com, forward to user@yahoo.com)

Yahoo also might not actually be showing 'plain' mime types since it handles html (obviously) just fine.

So I've now successfully got my email coming down to my pc but i'm having a problem sending emails...

I've added a relay host of smtp.gmail.com but the emails don't appear to be leaving my comp...

Any ideas? I've been looking around but not quite sure.

Use the one you normally do for Mail.app