On Monday 14 October 2002 02:41 am, Nancy McGough wrote: > I don't have a fetchmail example to submit, but I have a > question: Why do people use fetchmail rather than getmail or > another method (*)? It seems that getmail avoids this type of > problem because it does not route the mail through the local > SMTP. I'm not trying to start a fetchmail vs. getmail war, I just > want to understand this because I write a lot about email and > filtering.
Delivering through the local SMTP server is useful if you're already using such a server, with aliases and filters and such working with that setup; just setup fetchmail and you don't have to do anything else. Fetchmail also has a lot of features: in addition to normal POP3, it can do POP3 with RPOP or Kerberos authentication, use the IMAP, ETRN and ODMR protocols for fetching mail, can use helper programs to establish the connection for fetching mail (in case you need to do some firewalling stuff, for instance), and can make fetch connections using SSL. Also, Fetchmail has been around for a long time, so it's sorta the "defacto standard" in it's area. -- Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute, but set him on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ICQ: 132152059 | Advanced SPAM filtering software: http://spamassassin.org ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
