+<li>Code is 64-bit clean and Y2K-safe.</li>
+
+<li>Automatically decodes armored 7-bit MIME into 8 bits (this can
+be suppressed).</li>
+
+<li>You can specify which SMTP error is recognized as a spam
+block.</li>
+
+<li>Support for Kerberos V authentication.</li>
+
+<li>Support for IMAP-OTP authentication using Craig Metz's patches
+for UW IMAP.</li>
+
+<li>Support for IPv6</li>
+
+<li>Support for IMAP with RFC1731-conformant GSSAPI
+authentication.</li>
+
+<li>Fixed and verified support for Cyrus IMAP server, M$ Exchange,
+and Post Office/NT.</li>
+
+<li>Support for responding with a one-time password when a POP3
+server issues an RFC1938-conforming OTP challenge.</li>
+
+<li>Support for Compuserve's RPA authentication protocol for POP3
+(not compiled in by default, but configurable).</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Since 3.0:</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Support for IMAP RFC 1731 authentication with Kerberos v4.</li>
+
+<li>Support for multiple-folder retrieval in a single session under
+IMAP.</li>
+
+<li>Following SMTP 571 response to a From line, fetchmail no longer
+downloads the bodies of spam messages.</li>
+
+<li>Support for a `hunt list' of SMTP hosts.</li>
+
+<li>Support for ESMTP 8BITMIME and SIZE options.</li>
+
+<li>Support for ESMTP ETRN command.</li>
+
+<li>The stripcr & forcecr options to explicitly control
+carriage-return stripping and LF->CRLF mapping before mail
+forwarding.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Since 2.0:</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Support for secure use with ssh.</li>
+
+<li>Mailserver passwords can be parsed out of your .netrc
+file.</li>
+
+<li>When forwarding mail via SMTP, fetchmail respects the 571 "spam
+filter" response and discards any mail that triggers it.</li>
+
+<li>Transaction and error logging may optionally be done via
+syslog.</li>
+
+<li>(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.</li>
+
+<li>RPOP support (restored; had been removed in 1.8).</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>2.0 and earlier versions:</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Support POP2, APOP, RPOP, IMAP2, IMAP2bis, IMAP3, IMAP4,
+IMAP4rev1. .</li>
+
+<li>Support for Kerberos V4 user authentication (either MIT or
+Cygnus).</li>
+
+<li>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.</li>
+
+<li>Delivery 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.</li>
+
+<li>Configurable timeout to detect if server connection is
+dropped.</li>
+
+<li>Support for retrieving and forwarding from multi-drop mailboxes
+that is guaranteed not to cause mail loops.</li>
+
+<li>Large user community -- fetchmail has a large user base (the
+author's beta list includes well over two hundred people). This
+means feedback is rapid, bugs get found and fixed rapidly.</li>
+
+<li>Carefully written, comprehensive and up-to-date man page
+describing not only modes of operation but also how to diagnose the
+most common kinds of problems and what to do about deficient
+servers.</li>
+
+<li>Rugged, simple, and well-tested code -- the author relies on it
+every day and it has never lost mail, not even in experimental
+versions. (In the project's entire history there has only been one
+recorded instance of lost mail, and that was due to a quirk in some
+Microsoft code.)</li>
+
+<li>Strict conformance to relevant RFCs and good debugging options.
+You could use fetchmail to test and debug server
+implementatations.</li>
+
+<li>For anybody who cares, fetchmail is Y2K safe.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Features in common with other remote-mail retrieval
+programs:</h2>
+
+The other programs I have checked include fetchpop1.9,
+PopTart-0.9.3, get-mail, gwpop, pimp-1.0, pop-perl5-1.2, popc,
+popmail-1.6 and upop.
+
+<ul>
+<li>Support for POP3.</li>
+
+<li>Easy control via command line or free-format run control
+file.</li>
+
+<li>Daemon mode -- fetchmail can be run in background to poll one
+or more hosts at a specified interval.</li>
+
+<li>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.)</li>
+
+<li>Message and header processing are 8-bit clean.</li>
+</ul>
+
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