getmail A mail retriever designed to allow you to get your mail from one or more mail accounts on various mail servers.
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A mail retriever designed to allow you to get your mail from one or more mail accounts on various mail servers. getmail is a mail retriever designed to allow you to get your mail from one or more mail accounts on various mail servers to your local machine for reading with a minimum of fuss. getmail it is secure, flexible, reliable, and easy-to-use. getmail is designed to replace other mail retrievers such as fetchmail. Here are some key features of "getmail": · simple to install, configure, and use · retrieve virtually any mail support for accessing mailboxes with the following protocols: · POP3 · POP3-over-SSL · IMAP4 · IMAP4-over-SSL · SDPS (Demon UK's extensions to POP3) · support for single-user and domain mailboxes · retrieve mail from an unlimited number of mailboxes and servers · can remember which mail it has already retrieved, and can be set to only download new messages · support for message filtering, classification, and annotation by external programs like spam filters and anti-virus programs · support for delivering messages to different destinations based on the message recipient · reliability · native safe and reliable delivery support for maildirs and mboxrd files, in addition to delivery through arbitrary external message delivery agents (MDAs) · does not destroy information by rewriting mail headers · does not cause mail loops by doing SMTP injection, and therefore does not require that you run an MTA (like qmail or sendmail) on your host · written in Python, and therefore easy to extend or customize · a flexible, extensible architecture so that support for new mail access protocols, message filtering operations, or destination types can be easily added · cross-platform operation; getmail 4 should work on Unix/Linux, Macintosh, and other platforms. Windows support available under the free Cygwin package. · winner of various software awards, including DaveCentral's "Best of Linux. What's New in This Release: · Handle additional cases where IMAP (and for good measure, POP3) server is broken and offers a message that it then fails to return. Thanks: Eric Waguespack.

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