getmail is intended as a simple, secure, and reliable replacement for fetchmail. It retrieves email from one or more POP3, SPDS, or IMAP4 servers for one or more email accounts, and reliably delivers into qmail-style Maildirs, mboxrd files, or through external MDAs specified on a per-account basis.

Getmail is a simple replacement to fetchmail, implemented in Python. It can retrieve mail from POP3, IMAP4 and Standard Dial-up POP3 Service servers, with or without SSL. It supports simple and domain (multidrop) mailboxes, mail filtering via any arbitrary program, and supports a wide variety of mail destination types, including mboxrd, maildir, and external arbitrary mail delivery agents.