Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route
Vineet Kumar writes:
> The config file is much nicer (no parsing of english-like sentences...
Fetchmail doesn't parse any sentences. It just ignores the "noise words".
> ...just plain old name=value style config
That works fine with fetchmail. The silly "noise words" are optional.
> It doesn't require you to have an MTA running for local
> delivery
Neither does fetchmail.
> We've all gotten ourselves into trouble at one point or another with
> fetchmail
Speak for yourself.
> ...but getmail is much simpler, mostly because you don't have to worry
> about strange interactions with MTAs when troubleshooting.
Fetchmail is much simpler because all mail can come through the MTA so I
don't have to worry about strange interactions with MDA's.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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