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authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2019-08-07 16:55:17 +0200
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README: Update to Portability section.
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@@ -31,13 +31,12 @@ Portability
The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been extensively
tested under the BSD variants, AIX, HP-UX versions 9 and 10, SunOS, Solaris,
-NEXTSTEP, OSF 3.2, IRIX, and Rhapsody.
+NEXTSTEP, OSF 3.2, IRIX, and Rhapsody once upon a time.
-It should be readily portable to other Unix variants and Unix-like operating
-systems (it uses GNU autoconf). It has been ported to Cygwin, LynxOS and BeOS
-and will build there without special action. It has also been ported to QNX;
-to build under QNX, see the header comments in the Makefile. It is reported to
-build and run under AmigaOS.
+The maintainer no longer has acess to these systems, and assumes that
+the system is at least Single-Unix-Specification V2 compatible, yet will
+permit a C89 compiler. It currently ships with a copy of the trio library
+for systems that lack snprintf().
Further reading
---------------
@@ -54,7 +53,7 @@ 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).
+forwarding via SMTP to a local MTA).
You can get the code from the fetchmail home page: