[nycbug-talk] fetchmail pointers

[Scott Robbins]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:10:22PM -0700, Peter Wright wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the heads up Thomas!
> 
> ESR was the original fetchmail author no? - so i'll have to take a serious
> look at getmail.
> 

Getmail (more properly getmail--oh, darn, I just deleted that message
from the program's author on the getmail list) is a nice program.  I
have a page to quickly get you up to speed, it was listed, when getmail
changed from 3.x to 4.x in ports/UPDATING for awhile.  :)
</end_of_spam>  Oh, not quite the end, I oughta give the page.

http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/getmail.html

(The reference to the email by the author was on the getmail
list--someone called it GetMail and Charles posted that it should be
called getmail as someone apparently took the name GetMail for a
commercial MS app.)  

It's an excellent program, the program's author faithfully monitors the
getmail mailing list and quickly answers queries.  Most bugs are fixed
very quickly.  For example, I reported one that was fixed either the
next day or the day after.  

-- 

Scott Robbins

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