Re: info-gnus-english Digest, Vol 49, Issue 12

Re: info-gnus-english Digest, Vol 49, Issue 12

[Alexey Pustyntsev]

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. 

-- 
Rgds
Alexey

May the source be with you!

Re: info-gnus-english Digest, Vol 49, Issue 12

[Hadron]

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"?

Re: info-gnus-english Digest, Vol 49, Issue 12

[Kamen TOMOV]

On събота, Май 12 2007, Alexey Pustyntsev wrote:

> 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'.

This happened to me some time ago. AFIR it was when a network or
server proble occured while a long fetch operation. The solution was
adding the command: fetchlimit 100.