On 01/17/2015 05:12 PM, Gour wrote:
On Sub, 2015-01-17 at 21:50 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I want the server to fetch messages from different mailboxes provided by my ISP,
That means fetchmail.
Why not getmail?
The main advantage getmail has over fetchmail is that since getmail is written in python, and interpretive language like sell and perl, it can avoid the problems relating to buffer overflow that C coding has. Whether this is relevant or not is an interesting point. Fetchmail isn't shown to have buffer overflow problems. I'll grant you that getmail can be simpler than fetchmail because it isn't so capable, but in most cases, and I suspect Istvan's case, 98% of what fetchmail can do can be ignored and the config file will trivial. Mine deals with about 40 accounts and except for name/server/password every entry is the same. I could wite a geenrtor that reads lines of three fields in from a file to dynamically generate the fetchmail config! -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org