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-			 fetchmail README
+fetchmail README
+================
 
-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 supports
-POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP (including IMAP4rev1
-with RFC1731 Kerberos v4 authentication), and ESMTP ETRN.  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).
+Introduction
+------------
 
-The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been
-extensively tested under 4.4BSD, AIX, Solaris and NEXTSTEP.  It should be
-readily portable to other Unix variants (it uses GNU autoconf).  It
-has also been ported to QNX; to build under QNX, see the header
-comments in the Makefile.  It is reported to build and run under AmigaOS.
+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).
 
-See the distribution files FEATURES for a full list of features, NEWS
-for detailed information on recent changes and NOTES for design notes.
+Fetchmail supports all standard mail-retrieval protocols in use on the 
+Internet: POP3 (including some variants such as RPOP, APOP, KPOP), IMAP4rev1 
+(also IMAP4, IMAP2bis), POP2, IMAP4, ETRN, and ODMR. On the output side, 
+fetchmail supports ESMTP/SMTP, LMTP, and invocation of a local delivery agent.
 
-The fetchmail code appears to be stable and free of bugs affecting
-normal operation (that is, retrieving from POP3 or IMAP in single-drop
-mode and forwarding via SMTP to sendmail).  It will probably undergo
-substantial change only if and when support for a new retrieval
-protocol or authentication mode is added.
+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.
 
-You can easily fetch the latest version of fetchmail via FTP from the
-following FTP directory:
+Fetchmail supports end-to-end encryption with OpenSSL, do read README.SSL for 
+details on fetchmail's configuration and README.SSL-SERVER for server-side 
+requirements.  NOTE! To be compatible with earlier releases, fetchmail 6.3's 
+default behaviour is more relaxed than dictated by the standard - add options 
+such as --sslcertck to tighten certificate checking.
 
-	ftp://ftp.ccil.org/pub/esr/fetchmail
+Portability
+-----------
 
-Or you can get it from the fetchmail home page:
+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.
 
-	http://www.ccil.org/~esr/fetchmail
+It should be readily portable to other Unix variants and Unix-like operating 
+systems (it uses GNU autoconf).  It has been ported to Cygwin, LynxOS and BeOS 
+and will build there without special action.  It has also been ported to QNX; 
+to build under QNX, see the header comments in the Makefile.  It is reported to 
+build and run under AmigaOS.
+
+Further reading
+---------------
+
+The INSTALL file describes how to configure and install fetchmail.
+
+See the distribution files FEATURES for a full list of features, NEWS for 
+detailed information on recent changes, NOTES for design notes, and TODO for 
+a list of things that still need doing.  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.
+
+Status, source code
+-------------------
+
+The fetchmail code appears to be stable and free of bugs affecting normal 
+operation (that is, retrieving from POP3 or IMAP in single-drop mode and 
+forwarding via SMTP to sendmail).
+
+You can get the code from the fetchmail home page:
+
+	http://www.fetchmail.info/
+
+	http://fetchmail.berlios.de/
 
 Enjoy!
 
-							-- esr
+							-- esr, ma