> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:01:22 -0800
> From: Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Mutt Mail-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Possible to get the mail fetched by getmail filtered?
>
> 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?
I think I forgot to attach ":)" to that sentence. That said, I _do_
think that fetchmail has gone the Windows "I can do it all for ya,
pal" way, which is not what I like.
Let me put it this way: how would you label fetchmail? what is its
job? is it to talk SSL, talk SMTP (great if you need to get rid of
some messages in endless loops and similar stuff), filter spam, or
is it to talk POP, and write the messages to /dev/null, disk or
another program's stdin?
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