Same here (like another sibling reply). I really don't get the complaints. For private email consolidation, I've been running fetchmail for probably 20+ years

Same here (like another sibling reply). I really don't get the complaints. For private email consolidation, I've been running fetchmail for probably 20+ years now without any hiccups or complaints whatsoever. I haven't had to touch my Fetchmail+Postfix+Maildrop setup in like 15+ years, except for the postfix part in the sense that nobody accepts emails from dialup IPs any longer, so everything I _send_ goes through the proper mail server, instead of my own. My actual email provider (that I've also used for 20+ years, i.e. no, it's definitely not and never will be GMail) does throttle connections via POP3 or IMAP to 3 connections per 5 minutes. That's completely fine. I really don't care whether I get an email now or in 5 minutes from now. I check it way less often than that and I do definitely _not_ have notifications turned on for my email client. And when I do care (coz you know, some "2FA" BS email, I check via my provider's app or log into my server and start a `fetchmail`.