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Grabmail is functionally a mail client and is a project developed for Dr. Varnell's Software Systems class at LeTourneau University. Most of the credit goes to Braden King, Clint Olson and Tommy Gober. LeTourneau University is a private, Christian university located in Longview, Texas with programs in engineering, aeronautical science, business and education. It is especially very useful when your home or office email client is not available. Grabmail itself is not a mail portal but is actually a web portal from where you can setup IMAP and POP3 accounts.
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You can have multiple profiles made so you do not have to visit the websites separately in case you have multiple accounts. The profiles are setup on Grabmail to store mail server settings; mail is then fetched on request and displayed for easy reading. This makes it very convenient and efficient.
Written in Perl, this client does not implement every single feature of the POP or IMAP protocols. However, it takes the most basic and essential subset of the protocols. Grabmail downloads mail from a POP or IMAP server and appends it to a file or pipes it through a program. It is also very useful when you have a slow connection or an intermittent connection. You can choose to download only the headers and then choose to download mails selectively or you can also set parameters like attachment size as boundary while retrieving the mails.
The design of the command-line parsing is such that later occurrences of arguments override earlier ones using flags by checking and un-checking them. Thus you can invoke or override certain arguments using command lines. Currently, more work is being done on the visual layout (CSS) of Grabmail and will give a better overall look to the web interface. However this should not affect functionality in any way. Addition of this feature makes it mandatory for you to have a CSS/Javascript-compatible browser otherwise the Grabmail website will not open properly.
Grabmail uses IMAP protocol to download headers only. Then after selecting which mails to download, those downloaded mails are stored on the local computer as a copy of the original mail in the server. There is a synchronization of the folders and mails in the server and the local computer. So basically all the mails remain in the server and are controlled by the local computer for retrieval and deletion as and when required. However when you have a huge number of mails the use Grabmail POP3 support to quickly download all mails to the local computer saving you a lot of time. Sorting can easily be implemented. The disadvantage is it might not work so well when the connection is slow.
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