Due to a bug in Gnus I need to fetch my e-mail in a mbox file. After looking around the manual of fetchmail I couldn't find a way to do this easily.
Someone on #emacs suggested getmail. I think it's really cool and easy to setup. The installation lacks a quick recipe so here we go. You'll need to create /.getmail/getmailrc with something like:
[retriever] type = SimplePOP3Retriever server = smtp.kanis.fr username = ivan@foo.com password = mysecretpassword [destination] type = Mboxrd path = ~/tmp/ivan.mbox [options] delete = true
You'll need to create an empty mbox file:
touch ~/tmp/ivan.mboxc
You are all set!