Fetchmail
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Fetchmail is a utility found on some Unix-like systems used to retrieve e-mail from a remote POP3, IMAP, ETRN or ODMR mail server to the user's local system. It was developed from the popclient program.
Its chief significance is perhaps that its author, Eric S. Raymond, used it to discuss his theories of open source software development in a widely-read essay on software development methodologies, The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Many people have criticised fetchmail's design [1], its number of security holes [2], and that it was prematurely put into "maintenance mode" [3]. Some of the problems are being addressed by a new maintainer team that the project has been handed over to in 2004.
