Fetchmail
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Fetchmail is an open-source software utility for POSIX-compliant operating systems which is used to retrieve e-mail from a remote POP3, IMAP, or ODMR mail server to the user's local system. It was developed from the popclient program, written by Carl Harris.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- fork
- Creator
- Eric S. Raymond
- Official website
- gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail
- Image
- Fetchmailconf01.png
- Has use
- mail delivery agent
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- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
- source code repository URL
- gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail.git
- software version identifier
- 6.6.3
- operating system
- Unix-like operating system
- programmed in
- Q15777
- mailing list archive URL
- sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/fetchmail-users
- maintained by
- Eric S. Raymond
- issue tracker URL
- gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/issues
- inception
- 1996-00-00
- user manual URL
- www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-man.html
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Fetchmail is an open-source software utility for POSIX-compliant operating systems which is used to retrieve e-mail from a remote POP3, IMAP, or ODMR mail server to the user's local system. It was developed from the popclient program, written by Carl Harris.
Its chief significance is perhaps that its author, Eric S. Raymond, used it as a model to discuss his theories of open-source software development in a widely read and influential essay on software development methodologies The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
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