Re: A replacement for Fetchmail?

[Kingsly John <kingslyj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Mukund wrote:

 ||On 21/04/01 22:36 +0530, Mayuresh A Kathe spewed into the LI bitstream:
 ||
 ||> Is there something other than Fetchmail which is small and does
 ||> nothing great other than just fetching mail?
 |
 |Learn perl and you will find cute little 10 liner program to do what all
 |mail program do.

[kingsly@utopia kingsly]$ ls -l /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/fetchmail
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       147156 Sep 24  1999 /usr/bin/fetchmail*
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root     root       717020 Aug  7  2000 /usr/bin/perl*
[kingsly@utopia kingsly]$

your solution defies Mayuresh's objectives!

Kingsly


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