On 4/8/24 16:11, Wols Lists wrote:
On 03/08/2024 18:15, Dale wrote:
Well, what I'd like to do, install a email program that fetches the
emails and then stores them on my system. Then I can have
Thunderbird or any other email program connect to that and view,
create, send or whatever emails. Thing is, setting up the first
program is complicated. It is a bit over my head. From what I've
read, it is pretty picky too. It has to be fairly perfect or things
don't work. I'd need a seriously good how to to even get started. It
could turn into another long thread like that goofy monitor. :/
That's basically fetchmail. Although I gather that's now
abandonware-ish. There is a successor iirc, but I stopped using it
because it broke...
Fetchmail isnt abandoned - they fixed it (though somewhat slowley) for
the last openssl shmozzle update and it was working fine last I use it.
Getmail (from v6.0) is probably the other main fetch app and other than
some weirdness around how idle is implemented (it waits for messages
then exits so you have to run it again) it works fine with standards
compliant providers (not always the case!) I am using it with 4 email
accounts shared between two people using postfix and courier-imap.
Overkill but it was what I was using when working and other than
maintenance overhead it works fine in a gentoo VM.
BillK
