Alas! Roman Neuhauser spake thus: > > What? fetchmail only does one thing. It downloads mail and injects it > > into the local mail system. It has no filtering mechanism other than a > > rudimentary anti-spam mechanism. If you want to do filtering you just > > set your LDA to something like fetchmail. ... > I think I forgot to attach ":)" to that sentence. That said, I _do_ > think that fetchmail has gone the Windows "I can do it all for ya, > pal" way, which is not what I like.
I highly doubt that fetchmail has broken the unix philosophy. It was
written by Eric S. Raymond, FFS.
> Let me put it this way: how would you label fetchmail? what is its
> job? is it to talk SSL, talk SMTP (great if you need to get rid of
> some messages in endless loops and similar stuff), filter spam, or
> is it to talk POP, and write the messages to /dev/null, disk or
> another program's stdin?
I would label it as a mail retrieval utility, that downloads my mail
from my ISP into my postfix. It happens to be capable of several
different protocols; this makes it robust, not windows-ish.
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Rob 'Feztaa' Park
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