old fetchmail

[Thomas Kaiser]

On 08/30/2013 11:50 PM, David Fletcher wrote:
> 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.

I don't know. I switched from fetchmail to getmail some years ago, 
because getmail offered me more options (MultiGuesser) and I like the 
syntax of the config files of getmail more than fetchmail.
>
> 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?

Yes, you can install it side by side with fetchmail.

Regards, Thomas