Getmail

POP3/IMAP4 mail retriever with Maildir and command delivery

A POP3 and IMAP4 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and command delivery.

Summary of features

• Retrieve mail from an unlimited number of POP3/IMAP4 mailboxes and servers.
• Support for POP3-over-SSL and IMAP-over-SSL, as well as SDPS WARNING even with SSL, “no certificate or key validation is done.” so that getmail does not detect or protect from man-in-the-middle attacks.
• 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.

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