On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:29:55PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > as pointed out by others, you made a good choice with getmail over > fetchmail, since the latter breaks the unix philosophy "do one > thing, but do it right".
What? fetchmail only does one thing. It downloads mail and injects it into the local mail system. It has no filtering mechanism other than a rudimentary anti-spam mechanism. If you want to do filtering you just set your LDA to something like fetchmail. And as you pointed out mutt can check POP/IMAP boxes but that's it's purposes. Nor is fetchmail's purpose to filter mail. So what is it that you think fetchmail does to break the unix philosophy more than any other tool you're using? I really don't care what program you use. But really is it necessary to belittle someone elses tool in the process? -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live in such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
