-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
+
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