On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:44:33 +0300
Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:

>...
> 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

Been using it for about 10 years now, on machines that stay up for
months at a time, didn't hang yet.

> - retrieves mail via POP3 and IMAP only to inject it back to SMTP

?

> - ESR mentioned he wanted to make the configuration syntax easy.  
>   Apparently he made it so easy that a dedicated editor is needed

Didn't know there was a "dedicated editor". Made my config based
solely on the man page, back when I was still coming to terms with
basic Linux usage.

-- 
Carlos Sousa


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