Hi All Here is my 2 cents worth on both. I have been using both for a while with Linux and FreeBSD with very little difference with either operating system.
Fetchmail is OK but the config file can be a bit tricky to set up. The documentation is next to useless for a first time user. The FAQ is OK. It works well enough but can just die or hang for no particular reason. It is a real pain to get working when you want to have a bunch of users sharing one cheapy dial up mail account. It does work really well for sending mail on to other mail servers within your LAN. Getmail is much simpler to get going as long as you are very careful which version of Python you have installed. It will not work with the latest versions due to API changes in Python. Getmail is a Python application where Fetchmail is actually a standalone executable. The config file is easy to set up. No other MTA is required as Getmail actually writes the mail directly to the users mailbox. There is no daemon mode so it must be run in a script or under cron to keep polling mail. It is great for sorting mail for multiple users sharing a dial up account. The documentation is worse than useless as it is all but non existent. Anyway I reckon they are both OK but getmail is a bit easier to get going. Regards Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
