From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9000 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: info-gnus-english Digest, Vol 49, Issue 12 Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 16:01:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87odkqw388.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20070511155842.3D0CB149CE@sycore.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178980360 6744 80.91.229.12 (12 May 2007 14:32:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 14:32:40 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 12 16:32:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HmseF-0008MM-Ei for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 16:32:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hmslm-0004lt-OR for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 10:40:26 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Trace: individual.net jxf34nGMTxnchqrEtZveEwgHBpwbTqxjO4NbZ5pX/IQ0uK0LYi X-Orig-Path: news.individual.net!news X-Face: 2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%; |j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_! User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fzUNcMjDxe6+CLsEOQN0rbih1qU= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:79183 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:9000 Archived-At: nospam@dev.null (Alexey Pustyntsev) writes: > info-gnus-english-request@gnu.org writes: > >> MTAs) you'll probably have a better time of it. That MTA also receives >> the mail for you if you have local delivery. AFAIK gnus cannot deliver >> mail to you, but needs a backend (calling fetchmail, for instance). > > Hi all! > > I must tell you guys from my unpleasant experience that fetchmail > sucks. It has many bugs, security holes and needlessly complex > configuration file. I used fetchmail + gnus for more than half a > year. Everything seemed to be OK in the beginning, then, strange > things started happening like reinjecting over a hundred old messages, > each of which was scrupulously marked by the gnus as 'duplicate'. When > I figured out that it was fetchmail's fault I immediately switched to > getmail (highly recommended), which I've been using successfully since > that. Yes, just use getmail. It is free, simple, clean and very > reliable as it was specifically designed to ensure that your mail is > never lost or misdirected. And fetchmail was designed to lose and misdirect your mail? Does anyone else back up these claims? I have been using fetchmail with procmail for over a year with no issues whatsoever. Is it better to use "getmail"? btw, how is fetchmail "insecure"?