On Tuesday 30 October 2018 13:31:05 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 01:27:19PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Probably better: > > > > http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/getmail > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getmail > > http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why > > Interesting. I haven't used fetchmail in a *long* time (think > dial-up), so I wasn't aware of the issues in that FAQ.
As a long term, probably 15+ years user of fetchmail, I've never found it hard to configure, and the only incoming I didn't get was what procmail, as the mda agent didn't like from clamav, even spam comes on in and kmail sorts it to a spam directory. That which is virii, procmail puts in /var/spool/virii instead of delivering it to me. As a long term, 20 years or so, use of an isp who used qmail, by djb, I was rather put off by its instant acceptance of what was patently spam, and finally switching because the place was sold and I lost that account since I'd been retired 13 years already, I switched to my isp's dovecot server, and 99% of the spam disappeared. Their install of dovecot includes its also being a pop3 server, but because 99% of Shentels users are rigged for imap, fetchmails ability to delete a successfully transferred email has been defaulted to off. But I can and do log in about daily and clean it out with FF. If I was to switch to getmail, would getmail then be able to delete a fetched email from this dovecot server which I am currently accessing as a pop3 client. Found the docs, s/b well explained there. But the initial setup would be a bunch easier if it was all printed out so I had the step by step in hand. Can FF do a decent job of the html versions? Or do I need to extract the .gz's and load them into geany for conversion to paper copies? Many Thanks to anyone familiar with this. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>