old fetchmail

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 30 August 2013 20:37:44 David Fletcher did opine:

> On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 22:39 +0200, Thomas Kaiser wrote:
> > On 08/30/2013 06:17 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Greetings all;
> > > 
> > > What we have is old and I am told its attackable, fetchmail itself
> > > is up to 6.3.24.
> > > 
> > > The fetchmail users list at berlioz is a black hole, I subscribed,
> > > and have received 2 messages from the list in 30 days, one I posted
> > > on Aug 1, and the one I just posted an hour ago.
> > > 
> > > So where does one go about asking for support for fetchmail these
> > > days?
> > > 
> > > Cheers, Gene.
> > 
> > Hello Gene
> > 
> > fetchmail is old as you said. Why not using getmail "apt-cache show
> > getmail4".
> > 
> > Thomas
> 
> So, is there, as Gene suggests, any danger in using fetchmail? I've been
> running it as cron jobs on my server for years. I couldn't care less if
> it's old or not, it works, but if there's a danger I'll look into using
> something else.
> 
> Can getmail4 be installed on the same computer at the same time as
> fetchmail, for evaluation then moving my jobs over one at a time?
> 
> Dave

+1 (can I vote more than once? :) )
  
A very interesting question Dave, thanks for asking it.

Cheers, Gene
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