freebsd-ports/mail/getmail/pkg-descr
Matthias Andree 48541cd6c3 pkg-descr: add a warning that SSL does not validate certificates
distinfo: drop MD5 checksum while I'm at it

PR:           ports/154997
Approved by:  maintainer timeout
Submitted by: mandree (myself)
2011-03-07 11:16:58 +00:00

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A POP3 and IMAP4 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and command delivery.
Summary of features:
- Retrieve mail from an unlimited number of POP3/IMAP4 mailboxes and servers.
- Support for POP3-over-SSL and IMAP-over-SSL, as well as SDPS
WARNING: even with SSL, "no certificate or key validation is done." so
that getmail does not detect or protect from man-in-the-middle attacks.
- Support for multidrop or domain mailboxes.
- Safe and reliable delivery to qmail-style Maildirs, as well as program
(pipe) delivery for use with arbitrary external MDAs. Includes an MDA
for mbox files that supports mboxrd format and fcntl-type flock locking.
- Does not destroy information by rewriting mail headers.
- Does not cause mail loops by doing SMTP injection, and therefore does
not require that you run an MTA (like qmail or sendmail) on your host.
- Can remember which mail it has already retrieved, and can be set to
only download new messages.
- Written in Python, and therefore easy to extend or customize.
- Simple to install, configure, and use.
Author: Charles Cazabon <getmail@discworld.dyndns.org>
WWW: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/