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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1996-09-24 03:40:01 +0000
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- README for popclient
+ README for fetchmail
-popclient is a full-featured, robust, well-documented POP2, POP3, APOP,
-and IMAP client originally developed by Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com> and
-now maintained by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>.
+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>.
-popclient was developed under Linux and should be readily portable to other
+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 commets in the Makefile.
+under QNX, see the header comments in the Makefile.
-You can find the latest version of popclient from Eric's home page
+You can find the latest version of fetchmail from Eric's home page
http://www.ccil.org/~esr
-Features of popclient include:
+Features of fetchmail include:
* POP2, POP3, APOP, RPOP and IMAP support with auto-probing for a
server on the host if no protocol is specified.
* Easy configuration via command line or free-format .poprc file.
- * Daemon mode -- popmail can be run in background to poll
+ * Daemon mode -- fetchmail can be run in background to poll
one or more hosts at a specified interval.
* Delivery via either file-append with mandatory locking or an
MDA you specify, or via SMTP to the client machine's port 25.
* From:, To:, Cc:, and Reply-To: headers are rewritten so that
- usernames relative to the popclient host become fully-qualified
+ usernames relative to the fetchmail host become fully-qualified
Internet addresses. This enables replies to work correctly.
-There is a man page at popclient.man. A sample rc file is at sample.poprc.
+There is a man page at fetchmail.man. A sample rc file is at sample.fetchrc.
For a release history, see the file NEWS.
-- esr