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Date:      Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:31:59 -0800
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OT: perl mail problems
Message-ID:  <4f25747f.BYgK5LrxGnFl49Vf%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F241EA2.8050805@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
 
> Anything that works by connecting to an IMAP server and
> downloading all the new messages to hold and read locally
> really is missing the point.

... or is working around administrative issues, e.g. the mail
recipient wants the mail stored locally, and the mail-server
provides IMAP but not POP.

BTW fetchmail is the canonical (although not the only) solution
to this problem.



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