Secure Gmail POP with Fetchmail
Posted on March 9th, 2006
Mike Chirico has a great tutorial, Gmail on Home Linux Box using Postfix and Fetchmail, for getting fetchmail to download new messages from a Gmail account using STARTTLS encryption.
The first part of the tutorial walks you through a Postfix installation, but this can be easily skipped if you're already set up and just want to bring Gmail into the picture. Unless you're really interested in the finer points of email authentication procedures, knowing which certificate files you need and which syntax to use in your fetchmail configuration file saves so much time.