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5. TEST
I strongly recommend that your first fetchmail run use the -v and -k
-options, in case there is something not quite right with your local
-delivery configuration or your port 25 listener. Also, beware
-of aliases that direct your local mail back to the server host!
+options, in case there is something not quite right with your server,
+your local delivery configuration or your port 25 listener. Also,
+beware of aliases that direct your local mail back to the server host!
+
+This software is known to work with the qpop/popper series of
+freeware POP3 servers; also with the imapd servers that are
+distributed with Pine from the University of Washington. Other
+POP3 servers have been known to give it indigestion. Test carefully!
+If you have problems, switcch to imap.
6. USE IT