Re: What´s wrong with fetchmail? (Re: POP3 in Debian)

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:15:33PM +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote:


> It's fine if it works for you, but some years ago I had problems
> authenticting myself to a mail server with fetchmail. I switched to
> getmail4 and it worked instantly. I can't remember the details now but
> I've always used getmail4 since them.

I have used fetchmail for many years (might be about 15 now).  At more
than one stage I experimented with getmail which also worked but I
always came back to fetchmail.  I found getmail a bit more complicated
(or maybe it was just 'strange' for me) to configure properly.

Regards
Johann

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