[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexey Pustyntsev) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> MTAs) you'll probably have a better time of it. That MTA also receives >> the mail for you if you have local delivery. AFAIK gnus cannot deliver >> mail to you, but needs a backend (calling fetchmail, for instance). > > Hi all! > > I must tell you guys from my unpleasant experience that fetchmail > sucks. It has many bugs, security holes and needlessly complex > configuration file. I used fetchmail + gnus for more than half a > year. Everything seemed to be OK in the beginning, then, strange > things started happening like reinjecting over a hundred old messages, > each of which was scrupulously marked by the gnus as 'duplicate'. When > I figured out that it was fetchmail's fault I immediately switched to > getmail (highly recommended), which I've been using successfully since > that. Yes, just use getmail. It is free, simple, clean and very > reliable as it was specifically designed to ensure that your mail is > never lost or misdirected.
And fetchmail was designed to lose and misdirect your mail? Does anyone else back up these claims? I have been using fetchmail with procmail for over a year with no issues whatsoever. Is it better to use "getmail"? btw, how is fetchmail "insecure"? _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
