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-			README for popclient
+fetchmail README
+================
 
-popclient is a full-featured, robust, well-documented POP2, POP3, APOP,
-and IMAP client originally developed by Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com> and
-now maintained by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>.
+Introduction
+------------
 
-popclient was developed under Linux and should be readily portable to other
-UNIX systems (it uses GNU autoconf).  It has also been ported to QNX; to build
-under QNX, see the header commets in the Makefile.
+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).
 
-You can find the latest version of popclient from Eric's home page
+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.
 
-	http://www.ccil.org/~esr
+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.
 
-Features of popclient include:
+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.
 
-	* POP2, POP3, APOP, RPOP and IMAP support with auto-probing for a
-	  server on the host if no protocol is specified.
+Portability
+-----------
 
-	* Easy configuration via command line or free-format .poprc file.
+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.
 
-	* Daemon mode -- popmail can be run in background to poll
-	  one or more hosts at a specified interval.
+Further reading
+---------------
 
-	* Delivery via either file-append with mandatory locking or an
-	  MDA you specify, or via SMTP to the client machine's port 25.
+The INSTALL file describes how to configure and install fetchmail.
 
-	* From:, To:, Cc:, and Reply-To: headers are rewritten so that 
-	  usernames relative to the popclient host become fully-qualified
-	  Internet addresses.  This enables replies to work correctly.
+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.
 
-There is a man page at popclient.man.  A sample rc file is at sample.poprc.
-For a release history, see the file NEWS.
-							-- esr
+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