X-Git-Url: http://pileus.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=f64c7ab1b3d4038faddbf4b881abcee5a2ee7fea;hb=33cddbff323efcbae1503e91e6e65b2733da80c7;hp=fa94f5d14a0d50867738b429b7f0aa5c041c1b83;hpb=62a66ecb705b41866729a6d7eb70cf64f8e17cd8;p=~andy%2Ffetchmail diff --git a/README b/README index fa94f5d1..f64c7ab1 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,68 +1,62 @@ -Popclient README - - $Log: README,v $ - Revision 1.1 1996/06/26 15:27:06 esr - Initial revision - - Revision 1.3 1995/09/07 22:40:58 ceharris - Final 3.0b4 release - - Revision 1.2 1995/08/09 01:22:47 ceharris - Final preparation for 3.0b2 release. - - Revision 1.1 1995/08/07 21:09:19 ceharris - Final preparation for popclient 3.0b1 release - -This is a BETA release of popclient version 3. Little if any user support -is provided for this version of popclient. Consider this BETA version to -be a "developer/tester" release only. - -Release History - -3.0b5 -o "From " header fix in pop2.c and pop3.c -o Surpress "..." output when --stdout option specified in pop3.c - -3.0b4 -o alloca fix. -o various diagnostic/informational message fixes. - -3.0b3 -o Support for retrieving only new messages from maildrop when - using POP3. -o Support for retrieving only the first n lines of each message - when using POP3. -o APOP authentication support. -o Buffered socket input. - -3.0b2 - This is a "new features" release. -o support for .poprc file. -o GNU-style long options. -o fixed passwords appearing in 'ps' output -o support for multiple servers on one command line - -3.0b1 - This is mostly a test of the autoconfigure integration. -Among the functions performed by the new configure script, is -the ability to detect known system types, configures the mail -delivery agent (MDA) correctly. This should permanently solve -the problem of using something other than an MDA for mail -delivery (which continues to plague Linux slackware 1.2.9). -For this beta, please check the values of MDA_PATH and MDA_ARGS -carefully. They should match the values found in your -sendmail.cf file on the line which begins with "Mlocal". - - Other changes from popclient version 2.21: - -o no longer uses getpass() from the C library. The - internal getpassword() function allows the use of long - passwords. - -o integrated GNU getopt() for long options. Long option - names will appear in a future beta. - -o Several compiler warnings fixed. - -o Fixed problems related to missing include files in - Solaris port. +fetchmail README +================ + +Introduction +------------ + +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). + +Fetchmail supports all standard mail-retrieval protocols in use on the +Internet: POP3 (including some variants such as APOP, KPOP), IMAP4rev1 +(also IMAP4, IMAP2bis), IMAP4, ETRN, and ODMR. On the output side, +fetchmail supports ESMTP/SMTP, LMTP, and invocation of a local delivery agent. + +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 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. + +Portability +----------- + +The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been tested under +Cygwin, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris. It should be readily portable to other IEEE +Std 1003.1 (2001 or later) compliant operating systems. + +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, ma +