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[fetchmail-devel] We've got competition (getmail 4).

[Matthias A. <ma...@dt...>]

Hi,

Charles Cazabon's getmail-4 that is hosted at
http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/ has learnt the basic
steps of IMAP and SSL, so we've got competition.

A full rewrite might better be based on getmail...

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Re: [fetchmail-devel] We've got competition (getmail 4).

[Rob F. <rf...@fu...>]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Charles Cazabon's getmail-4 that is hosted at
> http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/ has learnt the basic
> steps of IMAP and SSL, so we've got competition.

Heh.... I like this:
http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/faq.html#faq-about-why

> A full rewrite might better be based on getmail...

Looks like getmail already is a rewrite.

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Re: [fetchmail-devel] We've got competition (getmail 4).

[Andreas <an...@co...>]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:38:58AM -0400, Rob Funk wrote:
> > A full rewrite might better be based on getmail...
> 
> Looks like getmail already is a rewrite.

Anybody know what kind of authentication mechanisms it supports? Looks to be
lacking in that area.

Sorry, better ask this in their mailing-list.

Re: [fetchmail-devel] We've got competition (getmail 4).

[Matthias A. <ma...@dt...>]

Rob Funk <rf...@fu...> writes:

>> A full rewrite might better be based on getmail...
>
> Looks like getmail already is a rewrite.

It is a rewrite but conceptually quite different from fetchmail, and
lacks lots of fetchmail's features. Not that I'd needed many of these in
recently.

But take Charles' advertising with a grain of salt. He has distinct (not
to say radical) views.

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