Re: my weekend project: a streaming POP3 fetcher, replacing fetchmail/getmail

2021-04-06 Thread Kurt Hackenberg
On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 09:43:36AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: >My new tool streams the fetches: it issues RETRs for every message up >front at maximum network speed - fully buffered and with no waits. A >parallel worker thread collects the messages as they come in at full >speed (the upstream

my weekend project: a streaming POP3 fetcher, replacing fetchmail/getmail

2021-04-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
Like several here, I fetch email from my ISP mail spool(s) and file messages locally. If my laptop's been offline overnight there can be hundreds of messages to fetch when I wake it up. On a satellite link (geostationary) with a ping time of over 600ms this can be many minutes of tedium. The