From b1f8a6777f792bdabfd33ead66c77607eb10bfb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 03:27:00 +0000
Subject: Ready to ship.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=585
---
README | 34 ++++++++++------------------------
fetchmail.man | 20 +++++++++-----------
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
index 67e08b7b..dba4e60d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -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:
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
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