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@@ -61,30 +61,7 @@ addresses as valid RCPT TO lines. 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. Be aware that some of popclient's unnecessary -options have been removed (see the NOTES file for explanation). You -can't deliver to a local mail file anymore or to standard output any -more, and using an MDA for delivery is discouraged. If you throw -those options away, fetchmail will now forward your mail into your -system's normal Internet-mail delivery path. - -Actually, using an MDA is now almost always the wrong thing; the MDA -facility has been retained only for people who can't or won't run a -sendmail-like SMTP listener on port 25. The default, SMTP forwarding -to port 25, is better for at least two major reasons. One: it feeds -retrieved POP and IMAP mail into your system's normal delivery path -along with local mail and normal Internet mail. Two: because the port -25 listener returns a positive acknowledge, fetchmail can be sure -you're not going to lose mail to a disk-full or some other -resource-exhaustion problem. - -If you used to use -mda "procmail -d <you>" or something similar, forward -to port 25 and do "| procmail -d <you>" in your ~/.forward file. +If you're upgrading from popclient, see question F4 in the FAQ file. 5. TEST @@ -104,7 +81,7 @@ fetchmail core dumps (especially near startup) try recompiling without 6. REPORTING BUGS -You should read the FAQ file before reporting a bug. +You should read the FAQ file question G1 before reporting a bug. 7. USE IT |