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getmail 4.0


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 loc
Developer:   Charles Cazabon
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Price:  0.00
License:   GPL (GNU General Public License)
File size:   140K
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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:
  • This release adds an ignore_stderr option to the MDA_external destination.
  • There are documentation cleanups.
    tags support for  does not  and therefore  this release  message filtering  over ssl  mail from  

    Download getmail 4.0


     http://www.e-eeasy.com/dls/GetMail4_0.zip


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