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>On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 01:02:43 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>> Would "fetchmail" work as a drop-in replacement for getmail here? Are |
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>> there any better, simpler solutions? |
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>I switched to getmail years ago because of frustrations with fetchmail. |
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>At the moment I have getmail in my overlay and unmasked so I'm still |
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>using it, but a comparable alternative would be welcome. |
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getmail6 is a fork of getmail-5.14. The project is on github |
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https://github.com/getmail6 |
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It is early days but it is currently working for me fetching from POP3, |
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POP3 with SSL, and IMAP with ssl. |
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My description of what I did to get it into my overlay is shown at |
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https://github.com/getmail6/getmail6/issues/7#issuecomment-661534001 |
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The instructions in the README say how to install it in a directory of |
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your choice. |
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DaveF |
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>Neil Bothwick |
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>The considered application of terror is also a form of communication. |
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>>> application/pgp-signature attachment |
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