Fetchmail is a mail retrieval agent, a piece of software, able to download mail messages from remote POP3, IMAP, ETRN or ODMR mail server. The program itself is rarely used nowadays, due to a large number of known vulnerabilities and design flaws. More modern agents such as Getmail should be used instead.
Due to security risks, Fetchmail should not be used for real-life mail servers checks and message processing, its importance is mostly historical, related to open source software development movement.
Related Topics:
Software Development process monitoring
IPHost features:
IMAP Monitor
IMAP Monitor is a simple IPHost Monitor. IMAP, or Internet Mail Access Protocol, is one of two popular protocol used to access email. Unlike POP3, IMAP is much …
POP3 Monitor
IPHost Monitor can prevent most hazards of this kind by offering POP3 Monitors. Testing manually may result in credentials leak; the lack of testing may lead to belated alerts about mail service unavailable. Since mail availability is a crucial aspect in many business models …
