Retchmail

Infobox Software
name = retchmail



caption = World's most stupidly fast POP3 retriever
author = Avery Pennarun
developer = Avery Pennarun, Patrick Patterson
released = 2002
latest release version = 1.0
latest release date = November 25, 2005 [ [http://freshmeat.net/projects/retchmail/ freshmeat.net: Project details for Retchmail ] ]
latest preview version =
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operating system = Linux, Unix, Posix
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genre = E-mail
license = GNU Lesser General Public License
website = http://open.nit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=RetchMail

retchmail is a small MRA written in C with the primary objective of being fast. It currently supports only the POP3 protocol with SSL support. Unlike fetchmail, retchmail lacks many features and isn't particularly robust. However, its unique features include the ability to retrieve from multiple remote mailboxes simultaneously, the policy of retrieving smaller mail before larger ones and the feature of downloading more than one e-mail message simultaneously. These features are clearly targeted at achieving high mail retrieval speeds. In fact, retchmail claims to be up to five times as fast as many other MRAs in existence. [ [http://open.nit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=RetchMail Retch Mail - open.nit.ca ] ]

retchmail is free software licensed under the GNU LGPL. It is written and maintained by Avery Pennarun and Patrick Patterson.

Notes

See also

* Mail retrieval agent
* fetchmail
* getmail

External links

* [http://open.nit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=RetchMail Official website]
* [http://freshmeat.net/projects/retchmail Freshmeat project page]