need simple command line utility to read imap or pop3 mail unattended

[Wade Smart]

I used fetchmail for years to get mail from yahoo, a few other domains.
I used Postfix/Dovecot to create my own mail system and then used
Thunderbird for all my email. I had around 2500 emails per day (too
much crap by then :D).  Fetchmail I found easier than getmail.
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On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 3:02 PM Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have been using mutt and neomutt and found both integrate nicely into
> scripts to send mail but on a quick look I could not find out how
> read mail ( hotmail, yahoo, gmail, , etc)  Apparently there is something
> called fetchmail and somethng else called getmail but not sure
> what is easiest. I have my own utility to download entire accounts
> that I have used to backup my hotmail but I need this to run on
> 12.04 and I had compiled against a bunch of current so's and it was
> not immeduately obvious that copying them over would not cause a mess :)
>
> The real problem is I'm trying to communicate with a machine that can not
> get a static IP address for monitoring equipment. email is the best I could do :)
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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