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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-07-17 20:54:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-07-17 20:54:32 +0000 |
| commit | 5b6b38cbd82468ac720d25b1889f63f4251bf4db (patch) | |
| tree | d12e69b8843a9388be9793b4ba32caa6d35f3c61 /README | |
| parent | 7b413aaa538cb43e69f954e2c7ee6a19951a48c8 (diff) | |
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First round of changes for OPIE support.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=1173
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@@ -2,13 +2,16 @@ 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 -POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP (including IMAP4rev1 -with RFC1731 Kerberos v4 authentication), and ESMTP ETRN. It +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 elm(1) or Mail(1). +fetchmail supports standard all mail-retrieval protocols in use on the +Internet: POP2, POP3 (including POP3 with RFC1938 one-time passwords), +RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP (including IMAP4rev1 with +RFC1731 Kerberos v4 authentication), and ESMTP ETRN. + The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been extensively tested under 4.4BSD, AIX, Solaris and NEXTSTEP. It should be readily portable to other Unix variants (it uses GNU autoconf). It |