From: John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net>
Subject: Re: fetchmail or pop3 mail source?
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:56:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sm0t1l68.fsf@ashbery.wjsullivan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874qddwrs3.fsf@dod.no>
Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
> After many years of nnimap, I'm in the process of adding a POP3 mail source
> with nnml mail folders.
>
> Does anyone have any good reasons to use either fetchmail with delivery into
> the local mail spool file (this is a linux laptop), or a Gnus pop3 source?
>
I use fetchmail because it means my Gnus/emacs session is not tied up while
mail is being fetched for as long. It only takes a second to fetch it from the
local mail spool file, but it can take some time to get it from a remote POP3
source. Particularly since I often fetch mail over GPRS, which can get a bit
slow.
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