Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail 6.2.9-rc3 available

[Jakob H. <jh...@pl...>]

Thomas Wolff wrote:

> Also, as I had noted before, fetchmail --ssl apparently depends on 
> IMAPS being known to the system as a service - probably by listing it 
> in /etc/services. If this is not the case, getaddrinfo will fail.

That's how Unix systems work and how people expect them work.

> Now fetchmail seems to be the only tool that enables command line users 
> to set up a working mail environment on a system which is not 
> otherwise administrated for handling mail (together with ssmtp).

There's also at least getmail and retchmail (did anybody try it?).