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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">Fetchmail</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><div class="infobox-caption">Screenshot of fetchmail launcher</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Programmer" title="Programmer">Original author(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Eric_S._Raymond" title="Eric S. Raymond">Eric S. Raymond</a></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">6.5.4<sup id="cite_ref-wikidata-4f646b80aeeb9fbdce81310ccb3d1474d86212c0-v20_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wikidata-4f646b80aeeb9fbdce81310ccb3d1474d86212c0-v20-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
/ 17 June 2025<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">17 June 2025</span>)</span></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">
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</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail.git">gitlab<wbr>.com<wbr>/fetchmail<wbr>/fetchmail<wbr>.git</a></span> </li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Mail_delivery_agent" class="mw-redirect" title="Mail delivery agent">Mail delivery agent</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GNU General Public License</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fetchmail.info/">www<wbr>.fetchmail<wbr>.info</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Fetchmail</b> is an <a href="Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open-source software</a> utility for <a href="POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX</a>-compliant operating systems which is used to retrieve <a href="E-mail" class="mw-redirect" title="E-mail">e-mail</a> from a remote <a href="Post_Office_Protocol" title="Post Office Protocol">POP3</a>, <a href="Internet_Message_Access_Protocol" title="Internet Message Access Protocol">IMAP</a>, or <a href="On-Demand_Mail_Relay" title="On-Demand Mail Relay">ODMR</a> mail server to the user's local system. It was developed from the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/soulwing/popclient">popclient</a> program, written by Carl Harris.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Its chief significance is perhaps that its author, <a href="Eric_S._Raymond" title="Eric S. Raymond">Eric S. Raymond</a>, used it as a model to discuss his theories of <a href="Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open-source software</a> development in a widely read and influential essay on software development methodologies <i><a href="The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar" title="The Cathedral and the Bazaar">The Cathedral and the Bazaar</a></i>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Design">Design</h2></div>
<p>By design, Fetchmail's only means of delivering messages is by submitting them to the local MTA/<a href="Message_transfer_agent" title="Message transfer agent">Message transfer agent</a> or invoking a <a href="Mail_delivery_agent" class="mw-redirect" title="Mail delivery agent">mail delivery agent</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> like <a href="Procmail" title="Procmail">procmail</a>, <a href="Maildrop" title="Maildrop">maildrop</a>, or <a href="Sendmail" title="Sendmail">sendmail</a>; delivering directly to mail folders such as <a href="Maildir" title="Maildir">maildir</a> is not supported.
</p><p>It is a <a href="C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C program</a> evolved by gradual mutation from an ancestor already written in C.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><a href="Dan_Bernstein" class="mw-redirect" title="Dan Bernstein">Dan Bernstein</a>, <a href="Getmail" title="Getmail">getmail</a> creator Charles Cazabon and <a href="FreeBSD" title="FreeBSD">FreeBSD</a> developer Terry Lambert, have criticized Fetchmail's design,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> its number of security holes,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and that it was prematurely put into "maintenance mode". In 2004, a new team of maintainers took over Fetchmail development,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and laid out development plans that broke with design decisions that Eric Raymond had made in earlier versions.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li><a href="Mail_retrieval_agent" title="Mail retrieval agent">Mail retrieval agent</a></li>
<li><a href="Getmail" title="Getmail">getmail</a></li>
<li><a href="Fdm_(software)" title="Fdm (software)">fdm</a></li>
<li><a href="OfflineIMAP" title="OfflineIMAP">OfflineIMAP</a></li></ul>
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</style><cite id="CITEREFMatthias_Andree2025" class="citation web cs1">Matthias Andree (17 June 2025). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/message/59196377/">"fetchmail 6.5.4 is available (crash fix for unencrypted socket write error, wolfSSL compilation fix)"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">6 July</span> 2025</span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html"><i>"...or into an MDA program..."</i></a>, Section G1, The Fetchmail FAQ.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFRichardson2004" class="citation journal cs1">Richardson, Anthony (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.18260%2F1-2--13866">"An Online Unix System Programming Course For Computer Engineering Students"</a>. <i>2004 Annual Conference Proceedings</i>. ASEE Conferences: 9.197.1–9.197.10. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.18260%2F1-2--13866">10.18260/1-2--13866</a></span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFLambert,_Terry" class="citation web cs1">Lambert, Terry. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=585008+0+archive/2001/freebsd-arch/20010218.freebsd-arch">"UUCP must stay; fetchmail sucks (was list 'o things)"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-04-05</span></span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFCazabon,_Charles" class="citation web cs1">Cazabon, Charles. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why">"getmail frequently asked questions"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-04-05</span></span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fetchmail.info/">"Developer History"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-04-05</span></span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fetchmail.info/design-notes.html">"Design Notes On Fetchmail"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-04-05</span></span>.</cite></span>
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<ul><li><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fetchmail.info/">Official website</a></span></span></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/">Fetchmail at SourceForge</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Alpine_(email_client)" title="Alpine (email client)">Alpine</a></li>
<li><a href="Balsa_(email_client)" title="Balsa (email client)">Balsa</a></li>
<li><a href="Citadel/UX" title="Citadel/UX">Citadel/UX</a></li>
<li><a href="Claws_Mail" title="Claws Mail">Claws Mail</a></li>
<li><a href="Cleancode_eMail" title="Cleancode eMail">Cleancode eMail</a></li>
<li><a href="GNOME_Evolution" title="GNOME Evolution">Evolution</a></li>
<li><a href="Fdm_(software)" title="Fdm (software)">fdm</a></li>
<li><a href="Geary_(e-mail_client)" title="Geary (e-mail client)">Geary</a></li>
<li><a href="Getmail" title="Getmail">getmail</a></li>
<li><a href="GNUMail" title="GNUMail">GNUMail</a></li>
<li><a href="Gnus" title="Gnus">Gnus</a></li>
<li><a href="Gnuzilla" class="mw-redirect" title="Gnuzilla">Gnuzilla</a></li>
<li><a href="Internet_Messaging_Program" title="Internet Messaging Program">IMP</a></li>
<li><a href="K-9_Mail" title="K-9 Mail">K-9 Mail</a></li>
<li><a href="Kontact" title="Kontact">KMail</a></li>
<li><a href="Mahogany_(email_client)" title="Mahogany (email client)">Mahogany</a></li>
<li><a href="Mailpile" title="Mailpile">Mailpile</a></li>
<li><a href="Mailx" title="Mailx">Mailx</a></li>
<li><a href="Heirloom_Project" title="Heirloom Project">Mailx (Heirloom)</a></li>
<li><a href="Modest_(email_client)" title="Modest (email client)">Modest</a></li>
<li><a href="Mozilla_Thunderbird" title="Mozilla Thunderbird">Mozilla Thunderbird</a></li>
<li><a href="Mulberry_(email_client)" title="Mulberry (email client)">Mulberry</a></li>
<li><a href="Mutt_(email_client)" title="Mutt (email client)">Mutt</a></li>
<li><a href="MH_Message_Handling_System" title="MH Message Handling System">nmh / MH</a></li>
<li><a href="OfflineIMAP" title="OfflineIMAP">OfflineIMAP</a></li>
<li><a href="Roundcube" title="Roundcube">Roundcube</a></li>
<li><a href="SeaMonkey" title="SeaMonkey">SeaMonkey</a></li>
<li><a href="Scribe_Mail" title="Scribe Mail">Scribe Mail</a></li>
<li><a href="SquirrelMail" title="SquirrelMail">SquirrelMail</a></li>
<li><a href="Sylpheed" title="Sylpheed">Sylpheed</a></li>
<li><a href="Trojit%C3%A1" title="Trojitá">Trojitá</a></li>
<li><a href="YAM_(Yet_Another_Mailer)" class="mw-redirect" title="YAM (Yet Another Mailer)">YAM</a></li>
<li><a href="Zimbra" title="Zimbra">Zimbra</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Discontinued</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Arachne_(web_browser)" title="Arachne (web browser)">Arachne</a></li>
<li><a href="Beonex_Communicator" title="Beonex Communicator">Beonex Communicator</a></li>
<li><a href="BlitzMail" title="BlitzMail">BlitzMail</a></li>
<li><a href="Classilla" title="Classilla">Classilla</a></li>
<li><a href="Columbia_MM" title="Columbia MM">Columbia MM</a></li>
<li><a href="Elm_(email_client)" title="Elm (email client)">Elm</a></li>
<li><a href="Pale_Moon_(web_browser)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pale Moon (web browser)">FossaMail</a></li>
<li><a href="Hula_(software)" title="Hula (software)">Hula</a></li>
<li><a href="Mailody" title="Mailody">Mailody</a></li>
<li><a href="Mozilla_Mail_%26_Newsgroups" title="Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups">Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups</a></li>
<li><a href="Nylas_N1" class="mw-redirect" title="Nylas N1">Nylas N1</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Canary_Mail" title="Canary Mail">Canary Mail</a></li>
<li><a href="EM_Client" title="EM Client">eM Client</a></li>
<li><a href="EmailTray" title="EmailTray">EmailTray</a></li>
<li><a href="Foxmail" title="Foxmail">Foxmail</a></li>
<li><a href="Mailbird" title="Mailbird">Mailbird</a></li>
<li><a href="Spark_(application)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spark (application)">Spark</a></li>
<li><a href="Spike_(application)" title="Spike (application)">Spike</a></li>
<li><a href="TouchMail" title="TouchMail">TouchMail</a></li>
<li><a href="Vivaldi_(web_browser)" title="Vivaldi (web browser)">Vivaldi Mail</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Airmail_(email_client)" title="Airmail (email client)">Airmail</a></li>
<li><a href="GroupWise" title="GroupWise">GroupWise</a></li>
<li><a href="HCL_Domino" class="mw-redirect" title="HCL Domino">HCL Domino</a></li>
<li><a href="Apple_Mail" title="Apple Mail">Apple Mail</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_Outlook" title="Microsoft Outlook">Microsoft Outlook</a></li>
<li><a href="Outlook_for_Windows" title="Outlook for Windows">Outlook for Windows</a></li>
<li><a href="Newton_(app)" class="mw-redirect" title="Newton (app)">Newton</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Becky!" title="Becky!">Becky!</a></li>
<li><a href="Fort%C3%A9_Agent" title="Forté Agent">Forté Agent</a></li>
<li><a href="GyazMail" title="GyazMail">GyazMail</a></li>
<li><a href="The_Bat!" title="The Bat!">The Bat!</a></li>
<li><a href="Samsung_Email" class="mw-redirect" title="Samsung Email">Samsung Email</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Pegasus_Mail" title="Pegasus Mail">Pegasus Mail</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Discontinued</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Bloomba" title="Bloomba">Bloomba/WordPerfect Mail</a></li>
<li><a href="Cc%3AMail" title="Cc:Mail">cc:Mail</a></li>
<li><a href="Claris_Emailer" title="Claris Emailer">Claris Emailer</a></li>
<li><a href="Courier_(email_client)" title="Courier (email client)">Courier</a></li>
<li><a href="Cyberdog" title="Cyberdog">Cyberdog</a></li>
<li><a href="Cyberjack" title="Cyberjack">Cyberjack</a></li>
<li><a href="Embrowser" class="mw-redirect" title="Embrowser">Embrowser</a></li>
<li><a href="Eudora_(email_client)" title="Eudora (email client)">Eudora</a></li>
<li><a href="Hiri_(email_client)" title="Hiri (email client)">Hiri</a></li>
<li><a href="Mail_(Windows)" title="Mail (Windows)">Mail (Windows)</a></li>
<li><a href="Mailbox_(application)" title="Mailbox (application)">Mailbox</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_Entourage" title="Microsoft Entourage">Microsoft Entourage</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_Internet_Mail_and_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft Internet Mail and News">Microsoft Internet Mail and News</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_Mail" title="Microsoft Mail">Microsoft Mail</a></li>
<li><a href="Minnesota_Internet_Users_Essential_Tool" title="Minnesota Internet Users Essential Tool">MINUET</a></li>
<li><a href="Netscape_Mail_%26_Newsgroups" title="Netscape Mail & Newsgroups">Netscape Mail</a></li>
<li><a href="Netscape_Messenger_9" class="mw-redirect" title="Netscape Messenger 9">Netscape Messenger 9</a></li>
<li><a href="NeXTMail" class="mw-redirect" title="NeXTMail">NeXTMail</a></li>
<li><a href="Outlook_Express" title="Outlook Express">Outlook Express</a></li>
<li><a href="Pine_(email_client)" title="Pine (email client)">Pine</a></li>
<li><a href="Pocomail" title="Pocomail">Pocomail</a></li>
<li><a href="POPmail" class="mw-redirect" title="POPmail">POPmail</a></li>
<li><a href="Postbox_(email_client)" title="Postbox (email client)">Postbox</a></li>
<li><a href="Sparrow_(email_client)" title="Sparrow (email client)">Sparrow</a></li>
<li><a href="Turnpike_(software)" title="Turnpike (software)">Turnpike</a></li>
<li><a href="WebSpyder" class="mw-redirect" title="WebSpyder">WebSpyder</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Live_Mail" title="Windows Live Mail">Windows Live Mail</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Messaging" title="Windows Messaging">Windows Messaging</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol" title="Simple Mail Transfer Protocol">SMTP</a></li>
<li><a href="Internet_Message_Access_Protocol" title="Internet Message Access Protocol">IMAP</a></li>
<li><a href="JSON_Meta_Application_Protocol" title="JSON Meta Application Protocol">JMAP</a></li>
<li><a href="Local_Mail_Transfer_Protocol" title="Local Mail Transfer Protocol">LMTP</a></li>
<li><a href="Post_Office_Protocol" title="Post Office Protocol">POP</a></li>
<li><a href="Push-IMAP" title="Push-IMAP">Push-IMAP</a></li>
<li><a href="Simple_Mail_Access_Protocol" title="Simple Mail Access Protocol">SMAP</a></li>
<li><a href="UUCP" title="UUCP">UUCP</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Email" title="Email">Email</a></li>
<li><a href="Unicode_and_email" title="Unicode and email">Unicode and email</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="Comparison_of_email_clients" title="Comparison of email clients">Comparison</a></li></ul>
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