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Re: Email client programs



Incoming from Erich Waelde:
> 
> > I don't think everyone is fully appreciating the problem. 
> That makes 2 of us ;)
> 
> What comes to my mind:
> a. (has been mentioned) use fetchmail to download the messages. Example
>    listing here:
> 
>    # fetchmail -d0 -a -f /etc/fetchmailrc
>    4 messages for myname at my.provider.com (45939 octets).
>    reading message myname@my.provider.com:1 of 4 (3771 octets) ... flushed

And, if the network drops out, fetchmail will notice and the next time
you go to get mail, that mail may be re-transmitted.  Feature!  If
that's a problem, tell procmail to watch for duplicates (very simple
to do) and drop them into a =Duplicates mail folder.

Between fetchmail and procmail and any barely usable mail client, bad
lines don't have to be a problem.  They just keep on trying until it's
done.


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