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@@ -1,13 +1,19 @@ README for fetchmail -fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented POP2, POP3, APOP, -and IMAP client originally developed (under the name popclient) by Carl -Harris <ceharris@mal.com> and now maintained by Eric S. Raymond -<esr@thyrsus.com>. - -fetchmail was developed under Linux and should be readily portable to other -UNIX systems (it uses GNU autoconf). It has also been ported to QNX; to build -under QNX, see the header comments in the Makefile. +fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented POP2, POP3, APOP, and +IMAP batch mail retrieval 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, where it can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as +elm(1) or Mail(1). + +The fetchmail program was originally developed (under the name popclient) by +Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com> and now maintained by Eric S. Raymond +<esr@thyrsus.com>. See the file NEWS for a version history. + +The fetchmail code was developed under Linux and should be readily portable +to other UNIX systems (it uses GNU autoconf). It has also been ported to +QNX; to build under QNX, see the header comments in the Makefile. You can find the latest version of fetchmail from Eric's home page |