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Re: Email client programs



also sprach Lev Lvovsky <lists1@sonous.com> [2001.12.27.0144 +0100]:
> > Well, the MUA should not have to worry about retrieval from POP servers.
> > That's fetchmail's job. But certainly the MUA is the thing for
> > interactively moving mails from one folder to another.
> 
> why the insistence on fetchmail?

it's the unix philosophy -- let one program do its job and do it well,
let other programs use that...

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martin;              (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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