On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: >On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 17:53 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >Slightly off-topic interjection, though it may help other fetchmail >users. > >> What can I use to replace fetchmail with then? > >getmail > >> Fetchmail has such an option according to the comments in .fetchmailrc, >> but the man page barely mentions it. I just looked this morning. Its >> not like RMS would actually want to tell somebody how to use that >> facility. ;) > >It does the same job as fetchmail, but without some of the bugs and with >better documentation and easier configuration. A nice touch is that you >can use a fetchmail MDA script without any changes - at least that's my >experience. > >My real gripe with fetchmail was the steady build-up of 'seen' mail in >my ISP's mailbox as sessions got terminated by their POP3 server and/or >line drops. Since I switched to getmail 3 weeks or so ago and got it >configured suitably, this no longer happens. > > >Martin > I just had yum install it, but the manpage style docs for it are even more sparse than fetchmail's. I didn't think that was possible.
Mention was made of their also being html docs. When I am awake next, I'll look for them. Thank you. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> If Machiavelli were a programmer, he'd have worked for AT&T.
