- ** (Linux only) Security option to permit fetchmail to poll a host
- only when a point-to-point link to a particular IP address is up.
-
- ** RPOP support (restored; had been removed in 1.8).
-
-2.0 and earlier versions:
-
- ** Support POP2, APOP, RPOP, IMAP2, IMAP2bis, IMAP3, IMAP4, IMAP4rev1.
-
- ** Support for Kerberos V4 user authentication (either MIT or Cygnus).
-
- ** Host is auto-probed for a working server if no protocol is
- specified for the connection. Thus you don't need to know
- what servers are running on your mail host in advance; the
- verbose option will tell you which one succeeds.
-
- ** Delivery via via SMTP to the client machine's port 25. This
- means the retrieved mail automatically goes to the system
- default MDA as if it were normal sender-initiated SMTP mail.
-
- ** Configurable timeout to detect if server connection is dropped.
-
- ** Support for retrieving and forwarding from multi-drop mailboxes
- that is guaranteed not to cause mail loops.
-
- * Support for POP3.
-
- * Easy control via command line or free-format run control file.
-
- * Daemon mode -- fetchmail can be run in background to poll
- one or more hosts at a specified interval.
-
- * From:, To:, Cc:, and Reply-To: headers are rewritten so that
- usernames relative to the fetchmail host become fully-qualified
- Internet addresses. This enables replies to work correctly.
- (Would be unique to fetchmail if I hadn't added it to fetchpop.)
-
- * Strict conformance to relevant RFCs and good debugging options.
- You could use fetchmail to test and debug server implementatations.
-
- * Message and header processing are 8-bit clean.
+The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been
+extensively tested under the BSD variants, AIX, HP-UX versions 9 and
+10, SunOS, Solaris, NEXTSTEP, OSF 3.2, IRIX, and Rhapsody.