macOS
Homebrew確認済み · 100%
brew install fetchmaillocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPorts確認済み · 94%
sudo port install fetchmailMacPorts ports tree · mail/fetchmail/Portfile · ソース: api.github.com
brew
fetchmail を Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper でインストール
fetchmail のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。
インストール
追加のインストールコマンド
Linux
Alpine Linux apk確認済み · 92%
sudo apk add fetchmailAlpine Linux edge package indexes · fetchmail · ソース: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Debian apt確認済み · 92%
sudo apt install fetchmailDebian stable package indexes · fetchmail · ソース: deb.debian.org
Fedora dnf確認済み · 92%
sudo dnf install fetchmailFedora Rawhide package metadata · fetchmail · ソース: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nix確認済み · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#fetchmailnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/fe/fetchmail/package.nix · ソース: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacman確認済み · 92%
sudo pacman -S fetchmailArch Linux sync databases · fetchmail · ソース: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
openSUSE zypper確認済み · 92%
sudo zypper install fetchmailopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · fetchmail · ソース: download.opensuse.org
概要
パッケージ概要
Client for fetching mail from POP, IMAP, ETRN or ODMR-capable servers
プロジェクトリンク
コマンドとエイリアス
- fetchmail
- fetchmailconf
履歴
プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方
fetchmail is one of the classic Unix mail-retrieval tools: it polls remote POP, IMAP, ETRN, or ODMR-capable servers and forwards mail into the local delivery system. Its normal role is not to replace a mail user agent, but to bridge remote mailboxes into local SMTP, LMTP, or MDA workflows so existing Unix mail filters, aliases, and readers can operate as though the mail arrived locally.
The project is historically significant beyond mail retrieval because Eric S. Raymond used fetchmail development as the case study for The Cathedral and the Bazaar. That made the package part of open-source culture as well as part of the Unix networking toolbox.
プロジェクトの歴史
Fetchmail began as popclient, written by Carl Harris. In 1996 Eric S. Raymond took over maintenance, added IMAP support, and renamed the program fetchmail. The official site records a later 2004 handoff to a team led by Rob Funk, Graham Wilson, and Matthias Andree, with Sunil Shetye credited for later important code contributions.
The current project continues under the fetchmail name with official source repositories on GitLab and SourceForge. The FAQ notes the modern branch layout, including stable and development branches, and the README describes a codebase that remains portable Unix C while progressively updating compiler, TLS, and build requirements.
採用の歴史
Fetchmail spread with the dialup and small-site Unix era, where machines often had intermittent connectivity or dynamic IP addresses and needed to collect mail from an ISP mailbox. Official documentation still describes this target plainly: remote mail retrieval over on-demand TCP/IP links, followed by forwarding into local delivery.
The project also became a cultural reference point. The FAQ says Raymond treated fetchmail development as a sociological experiment testing claims about the Linux development model, and that the resulting Cathedral and the Bazaar paper was presented at Linux Kongress '97 and other conferences before influencing wider open-source discussion.
Modern adoption is quieter but still real. The official home page reports a SourceForge Open Source Excellence award in 2024 after reaching 100,000 downloads from SourceForge, explicitly noting that this excludes distribution packages, mirrors, and earlier hosting.
使われ方
A typical fetchmail setup creates a ~/.fetchmailrc file describing one or more polls, keeps that file private with mode 0600, and lets fetchmail retrieve messages by POP or IMAP before handing them to a local SMTP listener, LMTP listener, or MDA. The manual also documents alternate config locations through HOME_ETC and FETCHMAILHOME.
Fetchmail's long tail is in protocol edge cases: it supports POP3, IMAP variants, ETRN, ODMR, multiple authentication methods, TLS options, daemon polling, single-drop and multidrop modes, and .netrc-based credential lookup. The FAQ repeatedly steers users toward keeping policy decisions, filtering, and complex routing in adjacent Unix tools when they are better suited there.
パッケージ好きにとっての重要性
For package nerds, fetchmail is the sort of tool that explains why old Unix packages have sprawling configure scripts, man pages, FAQ sections, security advisories, and distro patches: it sits at the crossing of network protocols, TLS libraries, local MTAs, dotfile permissions, daemon behavior, and decades of mail-server quirks.
It is also an artifact of a particular packaging culture. A small command-line daemon, a strict run-control file, SourceForge/GitLab hosting, long-lived stable branches, and a public security history make fetchmail a useful reference point for how mature infrastructure utilities survive after their original mainstream use case becomes less fashionable.
タイムライン
- Pre-1996: Carl Harris writes popclient, fetchmail's predecessor.
- 1996: Eric S. Raymond takes over, adds IMAP support, and renames the program fetchmail.
- 1997: The Cathedral and the Bazaar paper based on fetchmail development is presented at Linux Kongress '97.
- 2004: A new maintenance team led by Rob Funk, Graham Wilson, and Matthias Andree takes over.
- 2020: The FAQ records branch-name changes and the absence of a master branch after June 21, 2020.
- 2024: SourceForge recognizes fetchmail for reaching 100,000 downloads from the SourceForge site.
- 2025-2026: The 6.5 and 6.6 release lines update compiler, TLS, SMTP, IMAP, and security behavior while keeping fetchmail in active maintenance.
Related projects
- Related and competing tools listed by the project include fdm, getmail, getmail6, animail, GetLive, and mailfilter; fetchmail also depends operationally on local SMTP/LMTP listeners, MDAs, and mail user agents such as mutt.
ソース
セキュリティ状態
保護ツール対応はまだ見つかっていません
fetchmail に一致するローカルシークレット処理マニフェストは見つかりませんでした。将来の対応で安定したパッケージ URL を使えるよう、Nucleus パッケージメタデータはここに公開されています。
インストール挙動
- formula メタデータに Homebrew post-install フックは記録されていません。
- Homebrew bottle メタデータは 6 個のプラットフォームターゲットで利用できます。
- 1 件の実行時依存関係とともにインストールされます。
- ビルドメタデータには 1 件のビルド依存関係があります。
推奨レビュー
エージェントに無人実行させる前に、このツールが平文の認証情報を読むか、リモート状態を書き込むか、成果物を公開するか、プラグインを起動するかを確認してください。
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.fetchmailrc$HOME_ETC/.fetchmailrc$FETCHMAILHOME/fetchmailrc
Credential files
Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
- Unix
~/.fetchmailrc~/.netrc
実行可能ファイル
インストールされる実行可能ファイル
| コマンド | 種類 | 公開範囲 | メモ |
|---|---|---|---|
fetchmail | cli | グローバル実行可能ファイル | |
fetchmailconf | cli | グローバル実行可能ファイル |
鮮度
バージョンと鮮度
これらの信号は、ページ生成時期、パッケージマネージャの活動、上流リリース比較を分けて示します。バージョン遅れは、証拠 URL と比較可能なバージョンがある場合だけ警告されます。
ページ生成日2026-07-25
マネージャ版6.6.6
マネージャ更新日2026-06-25
ローカルデータOK
上流not checked
検出された最新未検出
- 情報Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.fetchmail.info/信頼度 none
インストールメタデータ
パッケージメタデータ
| パッケージキー | brew:fetchmail |
|---|---|
| バージョン | 6.6.6 |
| パッケージマネージャ | Homebrew |
| パッケージマネージャページ | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/fetchmail |
| ホームページ | https://www.fetchmail.info/ |
| リポジトリ | https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail |
| 上流ドキュメント | https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html |
| ライセンス | LGPL-2.1-or-later AND ISC AND BSD-3-Clause AND LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain AND (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH openvpn-openssl-exception) |
| ソースアーカイブ | https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.6/fetchmail-6.6.6.tar.xz |
| 最終更新 | 2026-06-25T00:11:34Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| 依存関係 | openssl@3 |
| ビルド依存関係 | pkgconf |
| Bottle | 利用可能 (対象 arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | 未定義 |
| サービス | 宣言なし |
レジストリ情報
ソースデータベース詳細
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | fetchmail |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
|
ソースデータベース一致
他のパッケージマネージャ記録
一致は外部パッケージマネージャインデックスから取得され、ローカルの Automic Vault パッケージリンクとは分けて表示されます。
Debian apt95%
fetchmail 6.4.39-1
SSL enabled POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder
sudo apt install fetchmail- Section: mail
- Architecture: amd64
- 9 依存関係
- 1 提供
- 5 任意依存関係
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Fetchmail
Nix95%
fetchmail
nix profile install nixpkgs#fetchmail- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Fetchmail
Ubuntu apt95%
fetchmail 6.4.38-1ubuntu4
SSL enabled POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder
sudo apt install fetchmail- Section: mail
- Architecture: amd64
- 9 依存関係
- 1 提供
- 5 任意依存関係
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Fetchmail
apk95%
fetchmail 6.6.1-r1
remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility
sudo apk add fetchmail- License: GPL-2.0-or-later WITH OpenSSL-Exception AND Public-Domain
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: fetchmail
- 1 依存関係
- 1 提供
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Fetchmail
apk95%
fetchmail-doc 6.6.1-r1
remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility (documentation)
sudo apk add fetchmail-doc- License: GPL-2.0-or-later WITH OpenSSL-Exception AND Public-Domain
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: fetchmail
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Fetchmail
apk95%
fetchmail-openrc 6.6.1-r1
remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility (OpenRC init scripts)
sudo apk add fetchmail-openrc- License: GPL-2.0-or-later WITH OpenSSL-Exception AND Public-Domain
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: fetchmail
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Fetchmail
apk95%
fetchmailconf 6.6.1-r1
GUI for generating fetchmail configuration files
sudo apk add fetchmailconf- License: GPL-2.0-or-later WITH OpenSSL-Exception AND Public-Domain
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: fetchmail
- 1 依存関係
- 1 提供
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Fetchmail
dnf95%
fetchmail 6.6.4-1.fc45
A remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility
sudo dnf install fetchmail- License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: fetchmail
- 7 依存関係
- 1 提供
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Fetchmail
pacman95%
fetchmail 6.6.4-1
A remote-mail retrieval utility
sudo pacman -S fetchmail- License: GPL
- Architecture: x86_64
- 1 依存関係
- 1 任意依存関係
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Fetchmail
zypper95%
fetchmail 6.6.1-3.1
Full-Featured POP and IMAP Mail Retrieval Daemon
sudo zypper install fetchmail- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: fetchmail
- 12 依存関係
- 4 提供
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Fetchmail
zypper95%
fetchmailconf 6.6.1-3.1
Fetchmail Configuration Utility
sudo zypper install fetchmailconf- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: fetchmail
- 5 依存関係
- 1 提供
- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Fetchmail
MacPorts95%
fetchmail
sudo port install fetchmail- normalized package name match
- 一致条件: Fetchmail
ソース経路
リポジトリデータから生成
このページは scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py が生成した非公開のパッケージ SQLite アーティファクトから av-web によって提供されます。
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
使用ソース
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment