On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 11:08:43AM -0500, Brendan Cully wrote:
> yes, but fetchmail is now a rather large and complex program, implying
> that incorporating even fetchmail's features into mutt makes a big
> bloated mess.
>
Would the POP3 features be more complex than the current IMAP4
features?
> Another alternative is to add some small features to fetchmail where
> you could pass a flag requesting particular messages be recalled or
> deleted by number, or requesting just headers on a given run. I
> actually discussed this with Eric Raymond (fetchmail's author)
> specifically in the context of making a more powerful POP backend for
> MUAs, and he seemed to really like the idea. This was about a month
> ago - but I haven't been working on it since I've been working on mutt
> and school instead.
>
> If fetchmail had these features, then we could chuck mutt's native POP
> support in favour of a nice fetchmail interface and everyone would be
> happy :)
>
This sounds quite a good idea.
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