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@@ -1,35 +1,36 @@ - README for popclient + README for fetchmail -popclient is a full-featured, robust, well-documented POP2, POP3, APOP, -and IMAP client originally developed by Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com> and -now maintained by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>. +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>. -popclient was developed under Linux and should be readily portable to other +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 commets in the Makefile. +under QNX, see the header comments in the Makefile. -You can find the latest version of popclient from Eric's home page +You can find the latest version of fetchmail from Eric's home page http://www.ccil.org/~esr -Features of popclient include: +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 configuration via command line or free-format .poprc file. - * Daemon mode -- popmail can be run in background to poll + * 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. * From:, To:, Cc:, and Reply-To: headers are rewritten so that - usernames relative to the popclient host become fully-qualified + usernames relative to the fetchmail host become fully-qualified Internet addresses. This enables replies to work correctly. -There is a man page at popclient.man. A sample rc file is at sample.poprc. +There is a man page at fetchmail.man. A sample rc file is at sample.fetchrc. For a release history, see the file NEWS. -- esr |