[sclug] mail setup: getmail, dovecot - and exim?

Matt Dainty matt at bodgit-n-scarper.com
Mon Jun 2 09:20:51 UTC 2008


* Philip Hands <phil at hands.com> [2008-06-01 15:37:04]:
> 
> I've never used getmail, but I ended up reading the code to fetchmail a
> few years ago when having some trouble with it, and what with that and
> the insane COBOL-like config file syntax, where about half of the things
> you see are just padding with no influence on the outcome, I vowed
> that if I ever needed to use such a thing again, it would be _anything_
> other than fetchmail.

Fetchmail, frequently doesn't.

Matt (ex-fetchmail user)
-- 
"I know it's your T1 because our network guy teleported into the Baywatch
hub and checked it!"
"It's 'telnet' and 'Bay Networks'."
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