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@@ -13,15 +13,32 @@ readily portable to other Unix variants (it uses GNU autoconf). It has also been ported to QNX; to build under QNX, see the header comments in the Makefile. -For those of you already familiar with previous versions, here are the -major new features since 3.0: - - ** Support for ESMTP 8BITMIME and SIZE options - Here are fetchmail's main features. Those unique to fetchmail (relative to fetchpop1.9, PopTart-0.9.3, get-mail, gwpop, pimp-1.0, pop-perl5-1.2, popc, popmail-1.6 and upop) are marked with **. +Since 3.0: + + ** Support for ESMTP 8BITMIME and SIZE options. + +Since 2.0: + + ** Support for secure use with ssh. + + ** Mailserver passwords can be parsed out of your .netrc file. + + ** When forwarding mail via SMTP, fetchmail respects the 571 + "spam filter" response and discards any mail that triggers it. + + ** Transaction and error logging may optionally be done via syslog. + + ** (Linux only) Security option to permit fetchmail to poll a host + only when a point-to-point link to a particular IP address is up. + + ** RPOP support (restored; had been removed in 1.8). + +2.0 and earlier versions: + * **POP2, POP3, **APOP, **RPOP, **IMAP2bis, **IMAP4 support. ** Support for Kerberos user authentication (either MIT or Cygnus). @@ -40,20 +57,6 @@ pop-perl5-1.2, popc, popmail-1.6 and upop) are marked with **. ** Support for retrieving and forwarding from multi-drop mailboxes that is guaranteed not to cause mail loops. - ** Support for secure use with ssh. - - ** Mailserver passwords can be parsed out of your .netrc file. - - ** When forwarding mail via SMTP, fetchmail respects the 571 - "spam filter" response and discards any mail that triggers it. - - ** Transaction and error logging may optionally be done via syslog. - - ** (Linux only) Security option to permit fetchmail to poll a host - only when a point-to-point link to a particular IP address is up. - - ** RPOP support is back. - * Easy control via command line or free-format run control file. * Daemon mode -- fetchmail can be run in background to poll |