On 2024-08-04, William Kenworthy wrote:

On 4/8/24 16:11, Wols Lists wrote:

On 03/08/2024 18:15, Dale wrote:

Well, what I'd like to do, install a email program that fetches the
emails and then stores them on my system.  Then I can have
Thunderbird or any other email program connect to that and view,
create, send or whatever emails. Thing is, setting up the first
program is complicated.  It is a bit over my head.  From what I've
read, it is pretty picky too. It has to be fairly perfect or things
don't work.  I'd need a seriously good how to to even get
started. It could turn into another long thread like that goofy
monitor.  :/

That's basically fetchmail. Although I gather that's now
abandonware-ish. There is a successor iirc, but I stopped using it
because it broke...

Fetchmail isnt abandoned - they fixed it (though somewhat slowley) for
the last openssl shmozzle update and it was working fine last I use
it.

Getmail (from v6.0) is probably the other main fetch app and other
than some weirdness around how idle is implemented (it waits for
messages then exits so you have to run it again) it works fine with
standards compliant providers (not always the case!) I am using it
with 4 email accounts shared between two people using postfix and courier-imap.  Overkill but it was what I was using when working and
other than maintenance overhead it works fine in a gentoo VM.

Reading this only now, but there is also getmail proper (version smaller
than 6). Might just be harder to install if there's no ebuild ready somewhere...

(I wonder what is Gentoo's position on this, given that what is being
made available as net-mail/getmail is *not* getmail. One thing is not
wanting getmail in the tree because of the python2 dependency, another
thing is allowing such a package name clash.)

I think getmail too has a mode where it runs, monitoring for new
messages? At least I recall reading something about that, and the
manual does mention at least "-iFOLDER" for IMAP IDLE. No idea if it
exits that way too.

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Nuno Silva

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