Re: Gnus Access mail spool by ssh

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br> writes:

> On Jul 11, 2000, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> 
> > $MOVEMAIL $MAIL $TMP >/dev/null && cat $TMP && rm -f $TMP
> 
> I've done that before, and I was bitten by it.  It happened that cat
> finished and the file was removed but a significant part of my mailbox
> was still in the network buffer, and the connection was broken before
> it got to the other end.  Ever since, I've been using fetchmail, which
> is far slower, but is quite safe.

This is a home network where both machines set on the same table so
may be a little safer.  But can fetchmail be used to fetch a spool
file from a remote machine not running a special server?  The man page
seems to indicate not:

      The fetchmail program can gather mail  from  servers  sup­
       porting  any of the common mail-retrieval protocols: POP2,
       POP3, IMAP2bis, and IMAP4.  It can also use the ESMTP ETRN
       extension.   (The  RFCs describing all these protocols are
       listed at the end of this manual page.)