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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 42f070fa..931dfc7a 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -726,18 +726,16 @@ When .I fetchmail queries more than one host, the returned status is that of the last host queried. -.SH AUTHORS -.I fetchmail -was originated (under the name `popclient') by Carl Harris at Virginia -Polytechnic Institute and State University (a.k.a. Virginia Tech). -.PP -Version 3.0 of popclient was extensively rewritten and improved by -Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>. The program's name was -then changed to -.I fetchmail -to reflect both the presence of IMAP support and the symmetry with sendmail -created by the new SMTP forwarding default. +.SH AUTHOR +Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>. .SH BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY +This program is descended +from and replaces +.IR popclient , +by Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com>; the internals are quite different, +but some of its interface design is directly traceable to that +ancestral program. Some effort has been made to preserve compatibility. +.PP If called through a link named `popclient', \fIfetchmail\fR will look in ~/.poprc for its run control file. As long as the file does not use the removed `localfolder' option or `limit' (which now takes a |