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<th colspan="2" class="hintergrundfarbe6" style="font-size:105%; text-align:center;">fetchmail
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<th colspan="2" class="hintergrundfarbe5" style="font-size:105%; text-align:center;">Basisdaten
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<td><b><a href="Maintainer" title="Maintainer">Maintainer</a></b>
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<td><span class="wikidata-content">Matthias Andree<sup id="cite_ref-_05f6cb60b57a3e0b_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-_05f6cb60b57a3e0b-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-_0a03c06cb2fbe88e_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-_0a03c06cb2fbe88e-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, <a href="Eric_S._Raymond" title="Eric S. Raymond">Eric S. Raymond</a></span>
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<td><span class="wikidata-content">1996</span>
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<td><span class="wikidata-content">6.6.2<sup id="cite_ref-_3479c51acf71b429_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-_3479c51acf71b429-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> <br> (<span class="wikidata-content">9. Dezember 2025</span>)
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<td><a href="GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GPL</a> (<a href="Freie_Software" title="Freie Software">Freie Software</a>)
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<td class="hintergrundfarbe5" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fetchmail.info/">fetchmail.info</a>
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<p><b>fetchmail</b> ist ein <a href="Freie_Software" title="Freie Software">freies</a> <a href="Kommandozeile" title="Kommandozeile">Konsolenprogramm</a>. Es holt <a href="E-Mail" title="E-Mail">E-Mails</a> von <a href="Post_Office_Protocol" title="Post Office Protocol">POP</a>-, <a href="Internet_Message_Access_Protocol" title="Internet Message Access Protocol">IMAP</a>-, <a href="ETRN" title="ETRN">ETRN</a>- oder <a href="On-Demand_Mail_Relay" title="On-Demand Mail Relay">ODMR</a>-fähigen <a href="Mailserver" title="Mailserver">Mailservern</a> und leitet sie an <a href="Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol" title="Simple Mail Transfer Protocol">(E)SMTP</a>- oder <a href="LMTP" class="mw-redirect" title="LMTP">LMTP</a>-fähige Mailserver oder ein <a href="Mail_Delivery_Agent" title="Mail Delivery Agent">lokales Zustellprogramm</a> weiter. Es wurde früher oft wegen seines Designs und der Sicherheitslücken kritisiert, trotzdem ist es auf <a href="Unix-Derivat" class="mw-redirect" title="Unix-Derivat">Unix-artigen</a> Systemen weit verbreitet und wird mit einigen Distributionen ausgeliefert.
</p><p>Bekanntheit erlangte das Programm auch dadurch, dass es von seinem zwischenzeitlichen Autor <a href="Eric_Steven_Raymond" class="mw-redirect" title="Eric Steven Raymond">Eric Steven Raymond</a> als Fallbeispiel im wohl bekanntesten Essay zum Thema <a href="Open_Source" title="Open Source">Open Source</a>, <i><a href="Die_Kathedrale_und_der_Basar" title="Die Kathedrale und der Basar">Die Kathedrale und der Basar</a></i>, erwähnt wird.
</p><p>Einige <a href="Programmierer" class="mw-redirect" title="Programmierer">Programmierer</a>, unter ihnen auch <a href="Daniel_J._Bernstein" title="Daniel J. Bernstein">Daniel J. Bernstein</a>, Charles Cazabon, der Entwickler von <a href="Getmail" title="Getmail">getmail</a>, und Terry Lambert, ein <a href="Softwareentwickler" title="Softwareentwickler">Entwickler</a> von <a href="FreeBSD" title="FreeBSD">FreeBSD</a>, haben das Design von fetchmail scharf kritisiert<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> sowie mehrere Sicherheitslücken entdeckt.<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>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Siehe_auch">Siehe auch</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Mail_Retrieval_Agent" title="Mail Retrieval Agent">Mail Retrieval Agent</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fetchmail.info/">Homepage des Projektes</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-_05f6cb60b57a3e0b-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-_05f6cb60b57a3e0b_1-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/MatthiasAndree"><cite style="font-style:italic">wiki.freebsd.org</cite>.</a> (abgerufen am 5. Januar 2021).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-_0a03c06cb2fbe88e-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-_0a03c06cb2fbe88e_2-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">In: <cite style="font-style:italic">Free Software Directory</cite>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-_3479c51acf71b429-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-_3479c51acf71b429_3-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Matthias Andree: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/message/59270832/"><cite class="lang" lang="en" dir="auto" style="font-style:italic"><span lang="en">The 6.6.2 release of fetchmail is available (fixes compilation without TLS/SSL</span></cite>.</a> In: <cite class="lang" lang="en" dir="auto" style="font-style:italic">Fetchmail-announce</cite>. 9. Dezember 2025 (englisch, abgerufen am 20. Dezember 2025).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite">Lambert, Terry: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=585008+0+archive/2001/freebsd-arch/20010218.freebsd-arch"><i>'UUCP must stay; fetchmail sucks (was list 'o things)'.</i></a><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 5. April 2007</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AFetchmail&rft.title=%27UUCP+must+stay%3B+fetchmail+sucks+%28was+list+%27o+things%29%27&rft.description=%27UUCP+must+stay%3B+fetchmail+sucks+%28was+list+%27o+things%29%27&rft.identifier=&rft.creator=Lambert%2C+Terry&rft.date=&rft.language=en"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite">Cazabon, Charles: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why"><i>'getmail frequently asked questions'.</i></a><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 5. April 2007</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AFetchmail&rft.title=%27getmail+frequently+asked+questions%27&rft.description=%27getmail+frequently+asked+questions%27&rft.identifier=&rft.creator=Cazabon%2C+Charles&rft.date=&rft.language=en"> </span></span>
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