getmail

Free and open source Python-based mail retriever
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Charles Cazabon
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://pyropus.ca
  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X
  • File Size:
  • 148 KB

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getmail Description

Free and open source Python-based mail retriever 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 is designed to be secure, reliable, easy-to-use and flexible. getmail is designed to replace other mail retrievers such as fetchmail. Here are some key features of "getmail": · simple to install, configure, and use support for accessing mailboxes with the following protocols: · 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 · 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 Mac OS X, Unix/Linux and other platforms. Windows support available under the free Cygwin package. Requirements: · Python 2.3.3 or later What's New in This Release: · Add missing fsync() in updatefile close method to ensure data actually hits disk before the rename takes place, to make writing of the oldmail file more resilient to system crashes.


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