Comment on The Art of Unix ProgrammingparentComments−mgedmin14yHave you ever seen the fetchmail source code?−pja14yMy brain is still trying to recover from that particular experience.−16s14yDidn't he take that over from someone else?Edit: Yes, it was written by a guy named Carl Harris and ESR took it over when Harris no longer wished to maintain it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetchmail−geoka914yWhy, what's wrong with it?−gonzo14yhttp://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-whyhttp://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=585008+0+archiv...http://www.fetchmail.info/design-notes.html
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Have you ever seen the fetchmail source code?
My brain is still trying to recover from that particular experience.
Didn't he take that over from someone else?
Edit: Yes, it was written by a guy named Carl Harris and ESR took it over when Harris no longer wished to maintain it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetchmail
Why, what's wrong with it?
http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=585008+0+archiv...
http://www.fetchmail.info/design-notes.html