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Re: A replacement for Fetchmail?



Arun Sharma rearranged electrons thusly:

> > > A code for sending mail
> > > from a smtp server is about 20-40 lines, so fetching mail from a pop3
> > > server should not be too big. Anyway, fetchmail's code is always 
> > there to
> > > guide you :-)
 
> Why reinvent the wheel when you can do:
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> from poplib import *

You need to install python first ... I doubt if the man has got enough space
for that.  Which is why he needs compiled and stripped binaries, not perl /
python scripts.

	-s

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