3 popclient is a full-featured, robust, well-documented POP2, POP3, APOP,
4 and IMAP client originally developed by Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com> and
5 now maintained by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>.
7 popclient was developed under Linux and should be readily portable to other
8 UNIX systems (it uses GNU autoconf). It has also been ported to QNX; to build
9 under QNX, see the header commets in the Makefile.
11 You can find the latest version of popclient from Eric's home page
13 http://www.ccil.org/~esr
15 Features of popclient include:
17 * POP2, POP3, APOP, RPOP and IMAP support with auto-probing for a
18 server on the host if no protocol is specified.
20 * Easy configuration via command line or free-format .poprc file.
22 * Daemon mode -- popmail can be run in background to poll
23 one or more hosts at a specified interval.
25 * Delivery via either file-append with mandatory locking or an
26 MDA you specify, or via SMTP to the client machine's port 25.
28 * From:, To:, Cc:, and Reply-To: headers are rewritten so that
29 usernames relative to the popclient host become fully-qualified
30 Internet addresses. This enables replies to work correctly.
32 There is a man page at popclient.man. A sample rc file is at sample.poprc.
33 For a release history, see the file NEWS.