On 2009-08-20 11:44, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Thu,20.Aug.09, 06:40:29, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-08-17 12:20, Andrei Popescu wrote:
[snip]
<flame>
Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to
actually work together must be a dark art :)
</flame>
What's so strange about fetchmail?
I admit this is uninformed, but it seems to me like fetchmail tries to
be many things, but not particularly good at anything:
- it has a daemon mode reported to hang
Hang, really? Glad I started out using it via cron.
- retrieves mail via POP3 and IMAP only to inject it back to SMTP
Sure, the locally-running MTA.
- ESR mentioned he wanted to make the configuration syntax easy.
Apparently he made it so easy that a dedicated editor is needed
Sentence-like, which it is! But everyone speaks in different ways,
especially ESLs.
I know fetchmail can be run from cron, deliver to an MDA (or directly)
and the configuration can be written directly by a human, but I prefer
getmail for that :)
Like I prefer fetchmail injecting mail into the local MTA, which
also handles local mail.
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