Well, I don't really have any experience with getmail, but: On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 10:39, Richard Luckhurst wrote: > Fetchmail is OK but the config file can be a bit tricky to set up. The
I just had to have my say here. fetchmails config parser uses a syntax that closely resembles natural language. The following is a valid .fetchmailrc snippet: poll mail.server.com with protocol pop3 user joebloggs with password sup3rs3kr1t is joe here The only thing that might need explaining is that joe is the account name of the local user to deliver the mail to. For the common scenario of one user grabbing mail from one account, that's all you need. Of course, you can give it much terser lines, too. Add to that a reasonably friendly GUI configurator (fetchmailconf), and you can't really go wrong. > 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 The default mode for fetchmail is to just connect to your MTA for delivery, but you can tell it to pass mail directly to an MDA such as procmail. I've never used fetchmail's multidrop support, but it does appear to be a fairly complex issue. The fetchmail packages in Debian Woody include init scripts to run a system-wide fetchmail daemon, which gets its config from /etc/fetchmailrc. It isn't really practical as a system to fetch multiple user's mail from different accounts, but combined with a working multidrop system, could probably do for a small site that can't receive smtp directly. Just another 0.02c. Feel free to round down. -- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
