getmail is a simple mail retrieval agent intended as a replacement for fetchmail, implemented in Python.
[5] It can retrieve mail from POP3,[3] IMAP4,[5] and Standard Dial-up POP3 Service servers, with or without SSL.
[5] Unlike fetchmail, getmail's Python foundation makes it nearly immune to buffer overflow security holes.
[citation needed] It also has a simpler configuration syntax than fetchmail, but supports fewer authentication protocols.
A fork named getmail6, which is not from getmail's original author, provides Python 3 support.