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Re: [fetchmail] Re: Deleting stale mail on servers

2003-10-10 11:00:21
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd(_at_)visi(_dot_)com>:
Just curious, why the refusal?

Because it takes fetchmail in the direction of being a mail user agent,
away from being a simple protocol gateway.  I fight this battle
constantly; I'm fighting it now with Matthias Andree :-).

Of course, the "ancestral" popclient was more an MUA than a protocol 
gateway, since it didn't talk SMTP.  Some people still want that MUA-ish 
functionality.

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