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On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Richard Lyon wrote:

> What advantages are there in using fetchmail
> instead of popclient?

If you download fetchmail and have a look at the docs, you'll see
that popclient development is finished and that fetchmail is based
on the popclient source. Fetchmail works fine for me.

Cheers

Marco Molteni
Computer Science student at the Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy.
UNIX _is_ user friendly.  It's just selective about who its friends are.