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 			README for fetchmail
 
-fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented POP2, POP3, APOP,
-and IMAP client originally developed (under the name popclient) by Carl
-Harris <ceharris@mal.com> and now maintained by Eric S. Raymond
-<esr@thyrsus.com>.
-
-fetchmail 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 comments in the Makefile.
+fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented POP2, POP3, APOP, and
+IMAP batch mail retrieval 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, where it can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as
+elm(1) or Mail(1).
+
+The fetchmail program was originally developed (under the name popclient) by
+Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com> and now maintained by Eric S. Raymond
+<esr@thyrsus.com>.  See the file NEWS for a version history.
+
+The fetchmail code 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 comments in the Makefile.
 
 You can find the latest version of fetchmail from Eric's home page