> With getmail having been deprecated, I can't pull it in on my fresh
> install, so I *HAVE TO* go with fetchmail. I tried following example at
> https://www.linode.com/docs/email/clients/using-fetchmail-to-retrieve-email/
> but it errors out at the first line...
> [i3][waltdnes][~] fetchmail
> fetchmail:/home/waltdnes/.fetchmailrc:1: syntax error at option
> Anybody have this working? The following was pulled by getmail as
> "SimpleSSLretriever" on port 995. Here's what I'm trying that's
> failing...
> poll mail.######.com protocol pop3 with option sslproto '':
> username "############" password "########" is "########" here
> mda "/usr/bin/procmail -m ~/.mailfilter/.procmailrc":
> Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
I didn't know getmail was deprecated, but haven't used getmail in a long time.
Maybe deprecated because of using Python 2.x which is deprecated? Or did
they/could they port to Python 3.x?
I use mpop and msmtp but am considering other possibilities including mutt.
I want to keep email in a format that does not limit use to one particular
application.
I tried to use fetchmail long ago, the problem was that it would not allow
downloading email direct to a file.
Tom
