Fetchmail

Fetchmail is a Free software, utility which one finds on many operating systems resembling at UNIX (" Unix-like") to recover distant emails via the protocols POP (POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP and KPOP), IMAP (all versions), ETRN, and ODMR on the local system of the user. He supports the IPv4 and the IPv6.

He is largely used, perhaps thanks to the development model of his author Eric S. Raymond. He discusses on the theory the mode development known as of the " bazar" in a test on methodologies of the development: “the Cathedral and the Bazaar”.

However it happens that the design of Fetchmail is criticized: (in), like its holes of safety (in) and the fact that it is always in " mode of maintenance" : (in).

And for more effectiveness, it is advised to employ his companion Procmail

External bonds

Official site of Fetchmail (in)
To use Fetchmail
Presentation of Fetchmail by the APRIL

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