On 24 Jan 2012, Johann Spies wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:15:33PM +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > It's fine if it works for you, but some years ago I had problems > > authenticting myself to a mail server with fetchmail. I switched to > > getmail4 and it worked instantly. I can't remember the details now but > > I've always used getmail4 since them. > > I have used fetchmail for many years (might be about 15 now). At more > than one stage I experimented with getmail which also worked but I > always came back to fetchmail. I found getmail a bit more complicated > (or maybe it was just 'strange' for me) to configure properly. > > Regards > Johann >
Interesting. I found getmail easy to configure, using the examples in the docs as a template. Anyway, this just illustrates one of the nice things about Linux - lots of different ways to get the result you want. -- Anthony Campbell - [email protected] Microsoft-free zone - using Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - book reviews, articles, blog, and printed books and ebooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
