[Wylug-help] Fetchmail setup

[Nigel Metheringham]

On 25 Nov 2010, at 11:02, A J Cole wrote:

> Maildrop is an MDA - it doesn't at a quick look appear to offer any
> advantage over procmail other than perhaps its use (more precisely its
> non-use) of memory while processing mega mail messages.  A quck look
> at that bug thread isn't too worrying since nearly all the reports are
> of an error message being produced (with mail still being delivered)
> which appears to be due to maildrop's development as the(?) MDA for the
> Courier MTA.

One advantage is maintenance - procmail is in full-on zombie mode -
it ought to be dead but no one has closed the coffin lid.

See
	https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/416901/37def822ec99e069/

for details (thats a LWN subscriber link - the article will become
generally visible at https://lwn.net/Articles/416901 in a week,
but as a subscriber I can hand out occasional direct article links).

	Nigel.
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