
   #Charles Cazabon's Pages
   
Summary of Features

     * Retrieve mail from an unlimited number of POP3 mailboxes and
       servers.
     * Support for multidrop or domain mailboxes.
     * Safe and reliable delivery to qmail-style Maildirs, as well as
       program (pipe) delivery for use with arbitrary external MDAs.
       Includes an MDA for mbox files that supports mboxrd format and
       fcntl-type flock locking.
     * Does not destroy information by rewriting mail headers.
     * Does not cause mail loops by doing SMTP injection, and therefore
       does not require that you run an MTA (like qmail or sendmail) on
       your host.
     * Can remember which mail it has already retrieved, and can be set
       to only download new messages.
     * Written in Python, and therefore easy to extend or customize.
     * Simple to install, configure, and use.
     * Won DaveCentral's "Best of Linux" award on 13 January 2000.
       
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getmail Requirements

     * Python version 1.5.2 or higher.
     * A configuration/data directory. By default, getmail looks for a
       directory named ".getmail" in your home directory. You can specify
       an alternative location with the --getmaildir or -g option.
     * getmail must have write permission to the Maildirs you are
       delivering to. This can be done by making the various destinations
       group writable, by only delivering to destinations owned by the
       user getmail is running as, or by running getmail as root. When
       delivering to Maildirs, getmail will attempt to chown any files it
       creates to the owner of the Maildir.
       
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Changes From Version 2

   For a list of incremental changes since version 2.3.x, please see the
   changelog.
   
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getmail Mailing Lists

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   There is a browsable archive of the list at
   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=getmail&r=1&w=2.
   
   Note: you are expected to have read the documentation and Frequently
   Asked Questions, and browsed/searched the mailing list archives,
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