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by mgedmin 5270 days ago
Have you ever seen the fetchmail source code?
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pja 5270 days ago
My brain is still trying to recover from that particular experience.
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16s 5269 days ago
Didn't he take that over from someone else?

Edit: Yes, it was written by a guy named Carl Harris and ESR took it over when Harris no longer wished to maintain it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetchmail

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geoka9 5270 days ago
Why, what's wrong with it?
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gonzo 5270 days ago
http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=585008+0+archiv...

http://www.fetchmail.info/design-notes.html

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