Fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN. It can even support IPv6 and IPSEC.
fetchmail
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About fetchmail6.4.37
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sudo apt install fetchmailSupported platforms
Latest version
6.4.37
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.37.tar.xz/download
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/
License
GPL
Latest version
6.4.37
Total downloads
22.99kAuthor
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Comments
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Useful utility, it'd be even better if it could be used to strip out mime attachments.