fetchmail README
-fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote
+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 elm(1) or Mail(1).
-fetchmail supports standard all mail-retrieval protocols in use on the
-Internet: POP2, POP3 (including POP3 with RFC1938 one-time passwords),
-RPOP, APOP, KPOP, Compuserve's POP3 with RPA, Microsoft's NTLM, Demon
-Internet's SDPS, all flavors of IMAP (including IMAP4rev1 with RFC1731
-Kerberos v4 or GSSAPI authentication or CRAM-MD5 authentication), and
-ESMTP ETRN. Fetchmail also supports end-to-end encryption with OpenSSL.
+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.
The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been
extensively tested under the BSD variants, AIX, HP-UX versions 9 and
substantial change only if and when support for a new retrieval
protocol or authentication mode is added.
-You can easily fetch the latest version of fetchmail via FTP from the
-following FTP directory:
+If you want to hack on this code, a list of known bugs and to-do items
+can be found in the file todo.html.
- ftp://ftp.ccil.org/pub/esr/fetchmail
+You can get the code from the fetchmail home page:
-Or you can get it from the fetchmail home page:
-
- http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail
+ http://fetchmail.berlios.de/
Enjoy!
- -- esr
+ -- esr, ma