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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1997-02-12 19:08:35 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1997-02-12 19:08:35 +0000
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Version bump.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=867
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@@ -18,10 +18,9 @@ poll one or more systems at a specified interval.
The
.I fetchmail
program can gather mail from servers supporting any of the common
-mail-retrieval protocols: POP2 (as specified in RFC 937), POP3 (RFC
-1939), IMAP2bis (as implemented by the 4.4BSD imapd program), and
-IMAP4 (as specified by RFC 1730). It can use (but does not require)
-the LAST facility removed from later POP3 versions.
+mail-retrieval protocols: POP2, POP3, IMAP2bis, and IMAP4. It can
+also use the ESMTP ETRN extension. (The RFCs describing all these
+protocols are listed below.)
.PP
While
.I fetchmail
@@ -147,9 +146,9 @@ IMAP2bis, IMAP4, or IMAP4rev1 (\fIfetchmail\fR autodetects their capabilities).
Use the ESMTP ETRN option.
.RE
All these alternatives work in basically the same way (communicating
-with server daemons to fetch mail already delivered to a mailbox on
-the server) except ETRN. The ETRN mode allows you to ask an RFC-1985
-complient ESMTP server (such as BSD sendmail at release 8.8.0 or
+with standard server daemons to fetch mail already delivered to a
+mailbox on the server) except ETRN. The ETRN mode allows you to ask a
+compliant ESMTP server (such as BSD sendmail at release 8.8.0 or
higher) to immediately open an sender-SMTP connection to your your
client machine and begin forwarding any items addressed to your client
machine in the server's queue of undelivered mail.
@@ -1036,7 +1035,7 @@ elm(1), mail(1), sendmail(8), popd(8), imapd(8)
.SH APPLICABLE STANDARDS
.TP 5
SMTP/ESMTP:
-RFC 821, RFC 1869, RFC 1652, RFC 1870
+RFC 821, RFC 1869, RFC 1652, RFC 1870, RFC 1985
.TP 5
mail:
RFC 822