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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-08-09 15:14:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-08-09 15:14:51 +0000 |
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diff --git a/indexgen.sh b/indexgen.sh new file mode 100755 index 00000000..cbe12031 --- /dev/null +++ b/indexgen.sh @@ -0,0 +1,238 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# +# indexgen.sh -- generate current version of fetchmail home page. +# +version=`sed -n <Makefile.in "/VERS=/s/VERS=\([^ ]*\)/\1/p"` +date=`date "+%d %b %Y"` + +cat >index.html <<EOF +<!doctype HTML public "-//W3O//DTD W3 HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE>Fetchmail Home Page</TITLE> +<link rev=made href=mailto:esr@snark.thyrsus.com> +<meta name="description" content="The fetchmail home page."> +<meta name="keywords" content="fetchmail, POP, POP3, IMAP, IMAP2bis, IMAP4"> +</HEAD> +<BODY> +<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> +<td width="30%">Back to +<a href="http://www.ccil.org/~esr/esr-freeware.html">Freeware</a> +<td width="30%" align=center>Up to <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> +<td width="30%" align=right>$date +</table> +<HR> +<center> +<table border="10"> +<tr> +<td> +<center><img src="bighand.gif"></center> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<H1>The fetchmail Home Page</H1> +</center><P> + +<H1>What fetchmail does:</H1> + +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 +every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3, +RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN. <P> + +Fetchmail retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it via +SMTP, so it can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as +elm(1) or Mail(1). It allows all your sytem MTA's filtering, +forwarding, and aliasing facilities to work just as they would on +normal mail.<P> + +Fetchmail offers better security than any other Unix remote-mail +client. It supports APOP, KPOP, and IMAP RFC1731 encrypted +authentication methods to avoid sending passwords en clair.<p> + +Fetchmail can be used as a POP/IMAP-to-SMTP gateway for an entire +DNS domain, collecting mail from a single drop box on an ISP and +SMTP-forwarding it based on envelope and header addresses.<p> + +Fetchmail can be started automatically and silently as a system daemon +at boot time. When running in this mode with a short poll interval, +it is pretty hard for anyone to tell that the incoming mail link is +not a full-time "push" connection.<p> + +Fetchmail is easy to configure, fast, and lightweight. It packs all +its features in less than 90K of core on a Pentium under Linux.<p> + +(Fetchmail is the successor of the old popclient utility, which is +officially dead.)<P> + +<H1>Where to find out more about fetchmail:</H1> + +See the <a href="fetchmail-features.html">Fetchmail Feature List</a> for more +about what fetchmail does.<p> + +See the <a href="fetchmail-FAQ.html">HTML Fetchmail FAQ</A> for +troubleshooting help.<p> + +See the <a href="http:design-notes.html">Fetchmail Design Notes</a> +for discussion of some of the design choices in fetchmail.<P> + +Finally, see the distribution <a href="NEWS">NEWS file</a> for a +description of changes in recent versions.<P> + +<H1>How to get fetchmail:</H1> + +You can get any of the following here: +<UL> +<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$version.tar.gz"> + Gzipped source archive of fetchmail $version</a> +<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$version-1.i386.rpm"> + Intel binary RPM of fetchmail $version</a> +<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$version-1.src.rpm"> + Source RPM of fetchmail $version</a> +</UL> + +The latest version of fetchmail is also carried in the +<a href="http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/pop/!INDEX.html"> +Sunsite remote mail tools directory</a>. + +<H1>Getting help with fetchmail</H1> + +There is a fetchmail-friends list for people who want to discuss fixes +and improvements in fetchmail and help co-develop it. It's at +<a href="mail:fetchmail-friends@thyrsus.com">fetchmail-friends@thyrsus.com</a> +and is a SmartList reflector; sign up in the usual way with a message +containing the word "subscribe" in the subject line sent to +to <a href="mail:fetchmail-friends-request@thyrsus.com"> +fetchmail-friends-request@thyrsus.com</a>. (Similarly, "unsubscribe" +in the Subject line unsubscribes you, and "help" returns general list help) <p> + +Note: before submitting a question to the list, <strong>please read +the <a href="fetchmail.FAQ.html">FAQ</a></strong>. We tend to get the +same three newbie questions over and over again. The FAQ covers them +like a blanket. Actually, I'll answer the most common one right here: +<em>If you've tried everything but can't get multidrop mode to work, +it is almost certainly because your DNS service (or your provider's) is +broken.</em><P> + +Fetchmail was written and is maintained by <a +href="../index.html">Eric S. Raymond</a>. <a +href="mailto:funk+@osu.edu">Rob Funk</a> and <a +href="mailto:alberty@apexxtech.com">Al Youngwerth</a> are fetchmail's +designated backup maintainers. Other backup maintainers may be added +in the future, in order to ensure continued support should Eric S. +Raymond drop permanently off the net for any reason.<P> + +<H1>Who uses fetchmail:</H1> + +Fetchmail entered full production status with the 2.0 version in +November 1996 after about five months of evolution from the ancestral +<IT>popclient</IT> utility. It has since come into extremely wide use in the +Internet/Unix/Linux community. The Red Hat and Debian Linux distributions +include it. A customized version is used at Whole Earth 'Lectronic +Link. Several large ISPs are known to recommend it to Unix-using SLIP +and PPP customers.<p> + +Over three hundred people have participated on the fetchmail beta +list. While it's hard to count free software users, we can estimate +based on (a) population figures at the WELL and other known fetchmail +sites, (b) the size of the Linux-using ISP customer base, and (c) the +volume of fetchmail-related talk on USENET. These estimates suggest +that daily fetchmail users number well into the tens of thousands, and +possibly over a hundred thousand.<p> + +<H1>The fetchmail paper:</H1> + +The fetchmail development project was a sociological experiment as well +as a technical effort. I ran it as a test of some theories about why the +Linux development model works.<P> + +I wrote a paper, <A HREF="../writings/cathedral.html">The Cathedral +And The Bazaar</A>, about these theories and the project. It was well +received at <A HREF="http://www.linux-kongress.de"> Linux Kongress +'97</A> and the <A HREF="http://www.ale.org/showcase"> Atlanta Linux +Expo</A> two weeks later. I'll be giving it at Tim O'Reilly's +<A HREF="http://www.ora.com/perlconference">Perl Conference</A> +August 19th-21st. A lot of people like it.<P> + +<H1>Recent releases and where fetchmail is going:</H2> + +The 4.0 release was intended to be a stable "gold" release which OS +integrators could rely on for a good long time. And so it would have +been for Linux systems, but some minor build problems on DEC Unix and AIX +cropped up. Hence the 4.0.1 release.<p> + +After 4.0.1 I wrote: "Development has essentially stopped because +there seems to be little more that needs doing." This turned out to +be not quite true, I've added some minor option switches since, mostly +to deal with weird configuration situations. <P> + +The present TO-DO list reads:<P> + +<UL> +<LI> +Generate bounce messages when delivery is refused. See RFC1891, RFC1894. + +<LI> +More log levels? + +<LI> +Use the libmd functions for md5 under Free BSD? (Low priority.) + +<LI> +Send notification mail on messages skipped due to --limit? +</UL> + +But these are frills. I'm not seeing serious user demand for any of them.<P> + +Major changes or additions now seem unlikely until there are +significant changes in or additions to the related protocol RFCs.<p> + +<H1>Where you can use fetchmail:</H1> + +The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been +extensively tested under 4.4BSD, Solaris, AIX, and NEXTSTEP. It should be +readily portable to other Unix variants (it uses GNU autoconf). Early +versions were also ported to QNX, but the status of that port is +presently unknown. It is reported to build and run correctly under AmigaOS.<p> + +<H1>Fetchmail's funniest fan letter:</H1> + +<A HREF="funny.html">This letter</A> still cracks me up whenever I reread it. + +<H1>The fetchmail button:</H1> + +If you use fetchmail and like it, here's a nifty fetchmail button you +can put on your web page:<P> + +<center><img src="fetchmail.gif"></center><P> + +Thanks to Steve Matuszek for the graphic design. The hand in the +button (and the larger top-of-page graphic) was actually derived from +a color scan of the fetchmail author's hand. <P> + +<H1>Fetchmail mirror sites:</H1> + +There is a FTP mirror of the fetchmail FTP directory (not this WWW +home site, just the current sources and RPM) in Japan at +<a href="ftp://ftp.win.or.jp/pub/network/mail/fetchmail"> +ftp://ftp.win.or.jp/pub/network/mail/fetchmail</a>.<P> + +<HR> +<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> +<td width="30%">Back to +<a href="http://www.ccil.org/~esr/esr-freeware.html">Freeware</a> +<td width="30%" align=center>Up to <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> +<td width="30%" align=right>$date +</table> + +<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> +</BODY> +</HTML> +EOF + +# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS +# Local Variables: +# mode:html +# truncate-lines:t +# End: |