has also been ported to QNX; to build under QNX, see the header
comments in the Makefile.
-For those of you already familiar with previous versions, here are the
-major new features since 3.0:
-
- ** Support for ESMTP 8BITMIME and SIZE options
-
Here are fetchmail's main features. Those unique to fetchmail
(relative to fetchpop1.9, PopTart-0.9.3, get-mail, gwpop, pimp-1.0,
pop-perl5-1.2, popc, popmail-1.6 and upop) are marked with **.
+Since 3.0:
+
+ ** Support for ESMTP 8BITMIME and SIZE options.
+
+Since 2.0:
+
+ ** Support for secure use with ssh.
+
+ ** Mailserver passwords can be parsed out of your .netrc file.
+
+ ** When forwarding mail via SMTP, fetchmail respects the 571
+ "spam filter" response and discards any mail that triggers it.
+
+ ** Transaction and error logging may optionally be done via syslog.
+
+ ** (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.
+
+ ** RPOP support (restored; had been removed in 1.8).
+
+2.0 and earlier versions:
+
* **POP2, POP3, **APOP, **RPOP, **IMAP2bis, **IMAP4 support.
** Support for Kerberos user authentication (either MIT or Cygnus).
** Support for retrieving and forwarding from multi-drop mailboxes
that is guaranteed not to cause mail loops.
- ** Support for secure use with ssh.
-
- ** Mailserver passwords can be parsed out of your .netrc file.
-
- ** When forwarding mail via SMTP, fetchmail respects the 571
- "spam filter" response and discards any mail that triggers it.
-
- ** Transaction and error logging may optionally be done via syslog.
-
- ** (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.
-
- ** RPOP support is back.
-
* Easy control via command line or free-format run control file.
* Daemon mode -- fetchmail can be run in background to poll