And [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke unto the world. And said: > From: "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Incoming from Jonas J Linde: >> > And [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke unto the world. And said: >> > > I need a tool that does the following work: >> > > checks for new mail in a maibox via pop3; >> ... >> procmail
> Procmail is a big tool, I need something different: small, reliable, > secure. Big? The gzipped source tar ball is 227kB. If you want something that processes mail in a fully customizable way I'm pretty sure you won't find anything much smaller than that. >> > > delete (archives) the mail; >> >> fetchmail > Fetchmail has the bad habit of freeze itself while downloading... Never had any trouble with fetchmail except if setup badly; eg. with different programs accessing the same mail box but using different locking schemes. >> > This sounds like an ideal job for the combination of the rather >> > appropriately named tools fetchmail and procmail, which - to no big >> > surprise - are suitable to fetch and process mail. >> >> Agreed. Add on gnupg for signature verification and decryption >> (perhaps callable by procmail). >> >> I'm not surprised there isn't one monolithic tool to do what you ask; >> you're asking a lot. Chaining one existing specific tool after >> another to build up your overall system is the way to go. > I agree, but I'm looking for smaller tools: I hate installing a > mailserver for handling an email... My idea is a group of 4-5 small > routines in perl or C, but I haven't found those yet. > Moreover the solution should depend on few system libraries. Nobody has suggested a mailserver as far as I can see. I suggested the fetchmail/procmail combination exactly because it is small, reliable and customizable. -- Jonas J Linde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.init.se/~jonas/ +46-707-492496 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GE/IT$ d-() s++: a C++(++++)$ UBVL++(++++)$ P++ L+++$ E++ W++(-) N+ o-- K+ !w(+) O M@ V PS+ PE++(-) Y+ PGP+>++ t 5 X R-@ tv- b+>++ DI D++ G++(-) e+++ h--(----) r++ y++++ UF+
