How can I enable fetchmail on OS X Mountain Lion?

Snow Leopard came with fetchmail, but in Mountain Lion seems to be missing. Homebrew doesn't have a formula for it either.

What's the best way to get back fetchmail?

Steffen Uhlig

Posted 2012-08-01T20:27:13.150

Reputation: 33

Answers

Homebrew does have it, but it's in the separate homebrew-dupes repository. So to install:

brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew install fetchmail

Simon Whitaker

Posted 2012-08-01T20:27:13.150

Reputation: 206

Thanks, but there seem to be some issues with this recipe. It tries to download http://prdownload.berlios.de/fetchmail/fetchmail-6.3.21.tar.bz2, which really is a stupid JavaScript redirect.

– Steffen Uhlig – 2012-08-02T19:08:26.347

Looks like the receipe in dupes was finally fixed. Thanks for the hint! I had to patch it with "--with-ssl", so this and the answer by @steve-ulrich are both kind of correct. – Steffen Uhlig – 2012-08-24T18:09:12.407

the following gist is a formula which will address this issue. if you go to the aforementioned link (to download the fetchmail source code) and place it into /Library/Caches/Homebrew and then run the gist. you'll get the homebrew version of fetchmail.

https://gist.github.com/3261452

steve ulrich

Posted 2012-08-01T20:27:13.150

Reputation: 1