slakmagik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-11 (Fri) 19:51:38 [-0300], Cleverson wrote: > > > > I'd like opinions on which of these fetch-mails programs is better and/or > > have less bugs: Fetchmail or Getmail?
I say getmail, but I'm biased, as I'm its author. > FWIW, here's what Patrick Volkerding (Slackware maintainer) thought > (from the ChangeLog) as of a couple of days ago: > > n/fetchmail-6.3.8-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to fetchmail-6.3.8. > Added "fetchmail is probably not secure" to slack-desc. When we've seldom > had a Slackware release that didn't need a fetchmail security advisory > before the next Slackware was out, I think that's fair to say. > (* Security fix *) > n/getmail-4.7.4-noarch-1.tgz: A secure python-based fetchmail alternative. Very interesting. getmail is included in most of the major distributions these days as an optional package, but that's the most recent version I've seen any of them ship -- that's the current version. In my experience, most people find configuring and using getmail easier. I think fetchmail's abominable security record will likely improve under its new maintainers (they actually have some technical credentials), but they're still saddled with the design decisions and some code from its ... ahem ... wild years. > I have no experience with maildrop, but like procmail just fine. I don't use either, personally, but find the maildrop syntax trivially easy to read. Many people have difficulty understanding procmail recipes, and as you say, procmail has some bugs that allow it to silently drop mail. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------
