On Thu,20.Aug.09, 06:40:29, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-17 12:20, Andrei Popescu wrote: > [snip] > > > ><flame> > >Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to > >actually work together must be a dark art :) > ></flame> > > What's so strange about fetchmail?
I admit this is uninformed, but it seems to me like fetchmail tries to be many things, but not particularly good at anything: - it has a daemon mode reported to hang - retrieves mail via POP3 and IMAP only to inject it back to SMTP - ESR mentioned he wanted to make the configuration syntax easy. Apparently he made it so easy that a dedicated editor is needed I know fetchmail can be run from cron, deliver to an MDA (or directly) and the configuration can be written directly by a human, but I prefer getmail for that :) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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