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@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@ fetchmail README -fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented POP2, POP3, RPOP, -APOP, KPOP, and IMAP batch mail retrieval/forwarding 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, so it can then be be read by +fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented +remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over +on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports +POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN. It +retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it to your local +(client) machine's delivery system, so it can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as elm(1) or Mail(1). The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been -extensively tested under 4.4BSD, Solaris and NEXTSTEP. It should be +extensively tested under 4.4BSD, AIX, Solaris and NEXTSTEP. It should be 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. |