Re: [fetchmail-users] Re: [fetchmail]fetchmail 6.3.4 stable release

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 4/17/06, Dale Pontius <po...@ki...> wrote:
> Hello,
> I realize that you hate multidrop, and generally disparage and deprecate
> the heck out of it, but for some of us, it's about the only way to make
> our email come out halfway decent. Given the text of this announcement,
> I need to ask some questions, and also see if I'm going to have to
> squirrel away a "last usable" copy of fetchmail source at some point.

It's also pretty much my only option (and if I switch hosts as I plan,
it will be my only option), so I'm in favour of a solid multidrop. 
The problem has, IMO, been that historically much of the multidrop
stuff has been based around guesswork and has often given different
results from what was intended or expected.

Just take a look through the archive of the old list and you'll see :-)

> I only WISH my ISP would support ssl/tls, or etrn, or odmr. I'm STUCK
> with multidrop, unless I spring for more $$$ to use a different provider
> for my email. I'm already paying $$$$ for a cable ISP and $$ for my
> domain and forwarding, not to mention $$.$e$$ for kids' education, so
> $$$ just to avoid multidrop just isn't in the cards, for now. (My ISP
> has multiple POP boxes, but my domain forwarding doesn't have enough
> capability, so I use multidrop.)

Actually, I'm looking at switching from a provider that, in theory,
allows me to avoid the use of multidrop to one that would force this. 
I'm planning this because my current provider is, well, less than
brilliant :)  I've got a vested interest in multidrop staying.

However, I don't believe that there is any intention of removing
multidrop.  From my understanding the intention is to fix the parts
that are broken (or remove the parts that should never have been
there).

Of course, Matthias may come along and say I'm wrong, but I'm hoping not :-)

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