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Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

From	mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements
Date	2018-10-30 20:30 +0100
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On 2018-10-30 19:03, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 October 2018 13:31:05 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 01:27:19PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
>> > Probably better:
>> >
>> > http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/
>> > https://packages.debian.org/sid/getmail
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getmail
>> > http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why
>> 
>> Interesting.  I haven't used fetchmail in a *long* time (think
>> dial-up), so I wasn't aware of the issues in that FAQ.
> 
> As a long term, probably 15+ years user of fetchmail, I've never found 
> it
> hard to configure, and the only incoming I didn't get was what 
> procmail,
> as the mda agent didn't like from clamav, even spam comes on in and
> kmail sorts it to a spam directory. That which is virii, procmail puts
> in /var/spool/virii instead of delivering it to me.
> 
> As a long term, 20 years or so, use of an isp who used qmail, by djb, I
> was rather put off by its instant acceptance of what was patently spam,
> and finally switching because the place was sold and I lost that 
> account
> since I'd been retired 13 years already, I switched to my isp's dovecot
> server, and 99% of the spam disappeared. Their install of dovecot
> includes its also being a pop3 server, but because 99% of Shentels 
> users
> are rigged for imap, fetchmails ability to delete a successfully
> transferred email has been defaulted to off. But I can and do log in
> about daily and clean it out with FF.
> 
> If I was to switch to getmail, would getmail then be able to delete a
> fetched email from this dovecot server which I am currently accessing 
> as
> a pop3 client.
> 
> Found the docs, s/b well explained there. But the initial setup would 
> be
> a bunch easier if it was all printed out so I had the step by step in
> hand. Can FF do a decent job of the html versions?  Or do I need to
> extract the .gz's and load them into geany for conversion to paper
> copies?
> 
> Many Thanks to anyone familiar with this.

I'm using getmail with dovecot deliver since fetchmail stopped working 
with gmail changing the ssl certificate ( server ) all the bloody time.
getmail doesn't have this problem for me although there is still a 
problem with gmail insisting on keeping deleted mail ( gone from IMAP 
inbox) in "all mail".
Other people seem to manage from the getmail mailing list so I probably 
haven't got the syntax quite right in getmairc.
dunno about pop.

mick

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Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-23 16:00 +0200
  Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-23 16:40 +0200
  Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2018-10-23 16:50 +0200
  Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2018-10-23 17:20 +0200
    Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-24 02:20 +0200
      Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2018-10-24 06:40 +0200
        Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-24 12:50 +0200
          Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2018-10-24 18:50 +0200
            Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-24 19:00 +0200
              Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2018-10-24 19:10 +0200
              Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-10-24 20:10 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-10-25 02:40 +0200
            Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-24 19:50 +0200
              Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-10-24 20:10 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-24 20:40 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2018-10-24 21:10 +0200
            Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Andrew Wood <andrewjameswood@ymail.com> - 2018-10-24 20:00 +0200
              Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-24 20:30 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Andrew Wood <andrewjameswood@ymail.com> - 2018-10-25 22:20 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Andrew Wood <andrewjameswood@ymail.com> - 2018-10-25 22:30 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-25 22:40 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-10-30 18:30 +0100
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-30 18:40 +0100
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-30 20:10 +0100
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-30 20:30 +0100
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-30 20:40 +0100
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-30 20:30 +0100
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-10-30 22:00 +0100
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-31 00:20 +0100
            Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-10-24 20:10 +0200
              Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2018-10-24 21:20 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-10-24 23:00 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-24 23:10 +0200
  Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-10-23 18:00 +0200
    Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-24 16:00 +0200

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