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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 7 |
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@@ -34,4 +34,11 @@ or you can choose completely different directories for each item. See the man page or the file sample.rcfile for a description of how to configure your individual preferences. +Note: if you have been using popclient (the ancestor of this program) +at version 3.0b6 or later, do this + +(cd ~; mv ~/.poprc ~/.fetchmailrc) + +in order to migrate. + Enjoy! @@ -18,13 +18,14 @@ Features of fetchmail include: * POP2, POP3, APOP, RPOP and IMAP support with auto-probing for a server on the host if no protocol is specified. - * Easy control via command line or free-format configuration file. + * Easy control via command line or free-format run control file. * Daemon mode -- fetchmail can be run in background to poll one or more hosts at a specified interval. - * Delivery via either file-append with mandatory locking or an - MDA you specify, or via SMTP to the client machine's port 25. + * Delivery via via SMTP to the client machine's port 25 (or + optionally via either file-append with mandatory locking or an + MDA you specify). * From:, To:, Cc:, and Reply-To: headers are rewritten so that usernames relative to the fetchmail host become fully-qualified |