Re: info-gnus-english Digest, Vol 49, Issue 13

[Hadron]

nospam@dev.null (Alexey Pustyntsev) writes:

> <hadronquark@gmail.com> Hadron writes:
>
>> 
>> And fetchmail was designed to lose and misdirect your mail?
>>
>> Does anyone else back up these claims? 
>>
>> I have been using fetchmail with procmail for over a year with no issues
>> whatsowhatsoever.
>
>> Is it better to use "getmail"?
>
> I think so. Getmail is written in Python and, probably, has better
> protection against various 'overflow' bugs and, yes, it seems to be
> far more reliable even when I use it over very slow connections. 
>

I installed it an ran it - works well.

I'm not sure the config is easier though - you need a seperate rc file
for each account from what I can gather.