Re: [tlug] GMail: Free Secure SMTP Server

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:19:41AM +0900, Evan Monroig wrote:
> On Feb.10 08h54, Scott wrote :


> > Yeah, we even have a QND guide about it.
> > 
> > http://www.qnd-guides.org/qnd-gmail.html
> 
> OH ! I didn't see that.. The config uses getmail not fetchmail. Is there 
> an advantage to that? I guess that the two would have pretty much the 
> same functionality, but maybe the overhead is different?
> 
> With fetchmail you can also check the server sertificate for pop3-ssl.  
> Is it also doable with getmail?

I don't know if you can check the server certificate or not, I've never
done it.  I suspect that you can, but that's only a guess.

I use because there were a few little things about fetchmail that irked
me.  This was over a year ago, and I can't even remember what they were.
A friend was using getmail, recommended it, I tried it and liked it.  

We also have a qnd getmail page (but it doesn't cover your questions.)

http://www.qnd-guides.org/qnd-getmail.html

So, I can't honestly say Oh, use getmail, it's a million times better
than fetchmail, it's simply (in my case) a matter of taste rather than
knowledge.  The getmail faq gives reasons why the author 
feels it's better than fetchmail, but I imagine he's prejudiced.  :)

At any rate, the tricky part of using mutt with gmail is the smtp part.  
That's the main reason I made that page, to deal with sending.
Receiving is, as you've found, fairly trivial. 



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