[Discuss] FOSS email that doesn't suck -- does such a thing exist?

[dbarrett at blazemonger.com (Daniel Barrett)]

On March 18, 2013, Rich Pieri wrote:
>The specific case is with pop3.el. [...]
>The result is a coding system that does not match the buffer contents.
>This silently corrupts the transfer buffer and the user loses all of the
>mail transferred that session.

Could you avoid this problem by using fetchmail to retrieve your email from
the server, instead of using Emacs to do it? That's what I do. Haven't lost
an email in the manner you describe for 20+ years.

Dan