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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1997-06-02 03:05:53 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1997-06-02 03:05:53 +0000
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fetchmail README
-fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented POP2, POP3, RPOP,
-APOP, KPOP, and IMAP batch mail retrieval/forwarding 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, so it can then be be read by
+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, and ESMTP ETRN. 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).
The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been
-extensively tested under 4.4BSD, Solaris and NEXTSTEP. It should be
+extensively tested under 4.4BSD, AIX, Solaris and NEXTSTEP. It should be
readily portable to other Unix variants (it uses GNU autoconf). It
has also been ported to QNX; to build under QNX, see the header
comments in the Makefile.