Hi Preston, Sorry, I inadvertently sent this to you directly instead of the list; trying out a new MUA, and it has its quirks... On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 08:34:09 -0700 UTC (7/9/2004, 10:34 AM -0500 UTC my time), Preston Crawford wrote:
Like everything else in Linux, you have choices. The better choice is getmail.. written in python, fast, easy to set up, secure. Never had a security problem like fetchmail... It just works.
P> Huh. Never heard of getmail until today. Can anyone else vouch for it? P> Not that I don't trust you, Gary. :-) there is nothing to vouch for. Google, it won an award a couple of years ago, and the author is well known, *professional* qmail administrator / open source software author.. In other words, he knows his __.. http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-3.0/getmail.html#summary P> Just never heard of it before, thus don't know how good it is. Whereas P> fetchmail (at least used to be) tried and true, you know. so has this... save yourself a headache, and just try it. It is a hell of a lot safer, more secure than fetchmail... I turned Bruce Marshall on to it a few years ago, and some others... Don't know if Bruce still uses it. P> Maybe I'll give it a whirl either way. Does it drop stuff in a typical P> Mail directory in mbox format like fetchmail? Asking since I use pine P> when I do remote email over SSH. Yes, read the FAQs for your answers... it will even filter. See summary above and FAQs. http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-3.0/faq.html#faq -- Gary