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@@ -1,47 +1,65 @@ - fetchmail README - -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 -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 all standard mail-retrieval protocols in use on the -Internet: POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, IMAP2bis, IMAP4, IMAP4rev1 -ESMTP ETRN, and ODMR. Fetchmail also fully supports authentication -via GSSAPI, Kerberos 4 and 5, RFC1938 one-time passwords, Compuserve's -POP3 with RPA, Microsoft's NTLM, Demon Internet's SDPS, or CRAM-MD5 -authentication a la RFC2195. Fetchmail also supports end-to-end -encryption with OpenSSL. - -The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been -extensively tested under the BSD variants, AIX, HP-UX versions 9 and -10, SunOS, Solaris, NEXTSTEP, OSF 3.2, IRIX, and Rhapsody. - -It should be readily portable to other Unix variants (it uses GNU -autoconf). It has been ported to LynxOS and BeOS and will build there -without special action. It has also been ported to QNX; to build -under QNX, see the header comments in the Makefile. It is reported to +fetchmail README +================ + +Introduction +------------ + +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 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 mutt(1), elm(1) or +Mail(1). + +Fetchmail supports all standard mail-retrieval protocols in use on the +Internet: POP3 (including some variants such as RPOP, APOP, KPOP), IMAP4rev1 +(also IMAP4, IMAP2bis), POP2, IMAP4, ETRN, and ODMR. On the output side, +fetchmail supports ESMTP/SMTP, LMTP, and invocation of a local delivery agent. + +Fetchmail also fully supports authentication via GSSAPI, Kerberos 4 and 5, +RFC1938 one-time passwords, Compuserve's POP3 with RPA, Microsoft's NTLM, Demon +Internet's SDPS, or CRAM-MD5 authentication a la RFC2195. + +Fetchmail supports end-to-end encryption with OpenSSL, do read README.SSL for +details on fetchmail's configuration and README.SSL-SERVER for server-side +requirements. NOTE! To be compatible with earlier releases, fetchmail 6.3's +default behaviour is more relaxed than dictated by the standard - add options +such as --sslcertck to tighten certificate checking. + +Portability +----------- + +The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been extensively +tested under the BSD variants, AIX, HP-UX versions 9 and 10, SunOS, Solaris, +NEXTSTEP, OSF 3.2, IRIX, and Rhapsody. + +It should be readily portable to other Unix variants and Unix-like operating +systems (it uses GNU autoconf). It has been ported to Cygwin, LynxOS and BeOS +and will build there without special action. It has also been ported to QNX; +to build under QNX, see the header comments in the Makefile. It is reported to build and run under AmigaOS. -See the distribution files FEATURES for a full list of features, NEWS -for detailed information on recent changes, NOTES for design notes, and -TODO for a list of things that still need doing. +Further reading +--------------- The INSTALL file describes how to configure and install fetchmail. -The fetchmail code appears to be stable and free of bugs affecting -normal operation (that is, retrieving from POP3 or IMAP in single-drop -mode and forwarding via SMTP to sendmail). It will probably undergo -substantial change only if and when support for a new retrieval -protocol or authentication mode is added. +See the distribution files FEATURES for a full list of features, NEWS for +detailed information on recent changes, NOTES for design notes, and TODO for +a list of things that still need doing. If you want to hack on this code, +a list of known bugs and to-do items can be found in the file todo.html. -If you want to hack on this code, a list of known bugs and to-do items -can be found in the file todo.html. +Status, source code +------------------- + +The fetchmail code appears to be stable and free of bugs affecting normal +operation (that is, retrieving from POP3 or IMAP in single-drop mode and +forwarding via SMTP to sendmail). You can get the code from the fetchmail home page: + http://www.fetchmail.info/ + http://fetchmail.berlios.de/ Enjoy! |