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@@ -12,27 +12,6 @@ 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. -The fetchmail program was originally authored (under the name -popclient) by Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com>. Eric S. Raymond, -<esr@thyrsus.com> took over development in June 1996 and subsequently -renamed the program `fetchmail' to reflect the addition of IMAP -support. See the distribution files NEWS for detailed information on -recent changes and NOTES for design notes. - -Before accepting responsibility for the popclient sources from Carl, I -had investigated and used and tinkered with every other UNIX -remote-mail forwarder I could find, including fetchpop1.9, -PopTart-0.9.3, get-mail, gwpop, pimp-1.0, pop-perl5-1.2, popc, -popmail-1.6 and upop. I learned from all of them, and fetchmail is a -carefully-thought-out attempt to render obsolete every other program -in its class. - -The fetchmail code appears to be stable and free of bugs affecting -normal operation (that is, retrieving from POP3 or IMAP and forwarding -via SMTP to sendmail). It will probably undergo substantial change -only if and when support for a new retrieval protocol or authentication -is added. - Here are fetchmail's main features. Those unique to fetchmail are marked with **. @@ -75,13 +54,20 @@ with **. every day and it has never lost mail, not even in experimental versions. - * Large user community -- fetchmail has inherited a significant - user base from Carl Harris's popclient community. This means + * Large user community -- fetchmail has a large user base (the + author's beta list includes over a hundred people). This means feedback is rapid, bugs get found and fixed rapidly. +The fetchmail code appears to be stable and free of bugs affecting +normal operation (that is, retrieving from POP3 or IMAP and forwarding +via SMTP to sendmail). It will probably undergo substantial change +only if and when support for a new retrieval protocol or authentication +is added. See the distribution files NEWS for detailed information on +recent changes and NOTES for design notes. + You can easily fetch the latest version of fetchmail via FTP from: - ftp://ftp.ccil.org/pub/esr/fetchmail-2.0.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.ccil.org/pub/esr/fetchmail-2.1.tar.gz Or you can get it from Eric's home page: |