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In article <52a1afd7dfsee....@walkingingermany.invalid>,
   Russell Hafter News <see....@walkingingermany.invalid> wrote:
> In article <37b174a152.n...@user.minijem.plus.com>, Richard
> Porter <dontuset...@address.uk.invalid> wrote:
> > The date being 28 May 2012, Alexander Ausserstorfer
> > <bavariaso...@chiemgau-net.de> decided to write:

> > > someone has seen that I'm using !PopStar for mail
> > > transfer. He suggested that I should prefer !Hermes to
> > > do this.

> > POPstar and AntiSpam work fine for me. Andrew would like
> > me to buy Hermes of course but I can't see the point when
> > what I've got ain't broke. AntiSpam fetches mail, POPstar
> > only sends mail.

> Does Antispam offer any advantages over POPStar (other than
> its spam processing facilities) as a mail fetcher?

Do you want any?
It's open source - which for me when Dave Higton did the first version
meant I could twiddle and feed the details to Dave.
Later that became Frank, but the principle was the same. I wanted a change
I twiddled and fed the rough content in.

-- 

Steve Pampling