On 2024-08-04, William Kenworthy wrote: > 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.
Reading this only now, but there is also getmail proper (version smaller than 6). Might just be harder to install if there's no ebuild ready somewhere... (I wonder what is Gentoo's position on this, given that what is being made available as net-mail/getmail is *not* getmail. One thing is not wanting getmail in the tree because of the python2 dependency, another thing is allowing such a package name clash.) I think getmail too has a mode where it runs, monitoring for new messages? At least I recall reading something about that, and the manual does mention at least "-iFOLDER" for IMAP IDLE. No idea if it exits that way too. -- Nuno Silva
