-Fetchmail supports all standard mail-retrieval protocols in use on the
-Internet: POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, IMAP2bis, IMAP4, IMAP4rev1
-ESMTP ETRN, and ODMR. Fetchmail also fully supports authentication
-via GSSAPI, Kerberos 4 and 5, RFC1938 one-time passwords, Compuserve's
-POP3 with RPA, Microsoft's NTLM, Demon Internet's SDPS, or CRAM-MD5
-authentication a la RFC2195. Fetchmail also supports end-to-end
-encryption with OpenSSL.
+Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote mail
+retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP
+links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It retrieves mail from remote mail
+servers and forwards it to your local (client) machine's delivery system, so it
+can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as mutt(1), elm(1) or
+Mail(1).