From cc1d54958e1c54f84296a7703a94f565ecc51da4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 15:14:51 +0000 Subject: Initial revision svn path=/trunk/; revision=1252 --- indexgen.sh | 238 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 238 insertions(+) create mode 100755 indexgen.sh (limited to 'indexgen.sh') diff --git a/indexgen.sh b/indexgen.sh new file mode 100755 index 00000000..cbe12031 --- /dev/null +++ b/indexgen.sh @@ -0,0 +1,238 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# +# indexgen.sh -- generate current version of fetchmail home page. +# +version=`sed -n index.html < + + +Fetchmail Home Page + + + + + + +

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The fetchmail Home Page

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What fetchmail does:

+ +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 +every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3, +RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN.

+ +Fetchmail retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it via +SMTP, so it can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as +elm(1) or Mail(1). It allows all your sytem MTA's filtering, +forwarding, and aliasing facilities to work just as they would on +normal mail.

+ +Fetchmail offers better security than any other Unix remote-mail +client. It supports APOP, KPOP, and IMAP RFC1731 encrypted +authentication methods to avoid sending passwords en clair.

+ +Fetchmail can be used as a POP/IMAP-to-SMTP gateway for an entire +DNS domain, collecting mail from a single drop box on an ISP and +SMTP-forwarding it based on envelope and header addresses.

+ +Fetchmail can be started automatically and silently as a system daemon +at boot time. When running in this mode with a short poll interval, +it is pretty hard for anyone to tell that the incoming mail link is +not a full-time "push" connection.

+ +Fetchmail is easy to configure, fast, and lightweight. It packs all +its features in less than 90K of core on a Pentium under Linux.

+ +(Fetchmail is the successor of the old popclient utility, which is +officially dead.)

+ +

Where to find out more about fetchmail:

+ +See the Fetchmail Feature List for more +about what fetchmail does.

+ +See the HTML Fetchmail FAQ for +troubleshooting help.

+ +See the Fetchmail Design Notes +for discussion of some of the design choices in fetchmail.

+ +Finally, see the distribution NEWS file for a +description of changes in recent versions.

+ +

How to get fetchmail:

+ +You can get any of the following here: +

+ +The latest version of fetchmail is also carried in the + +Sunsite remote mail tools directory. + +

Getting help with fetchmail

+ +There is a fetchmail-friends list for people who want to discuss fixes +and improvements in fetchmail and help co-develop it. It's at +fetchmail-friends@thyrsus.com +and is a SmartList reflector; sign up in the usual way with a message +containing the word "subscribe" in the subject line sent to +to +fetchmail-friends-request@thyrsus.com. (Similarly, "unsubscribe" +in the Subject line unsubscribes you, and "help" returns general list help)

+ +Note: before submitting a question to the list, please read +the FAQ. We tend to get the +same three newbie questions over and over again. The FAQ covers them +like a blanket. Actually, I'll answer the most common one right here: +If you've tried everything but can't get multidrop mode to work, +it is almost certainly because your DNS service (or your provider's) is +broken.

+ +Fetchmail was written and is maintained by Eric S. Raymond. Rob Funk and Al Youngwerth are fetchmail's +designated backup maintainers. Other backup maintainers may be added +in the future, in order to ensure continued support should Eric S. +Raymond drop permanently off the net for any reason.

+ +

Who uses fetchmail:

+ +Fetchmail entered full production status with the 2.0 version in +November 1996 after about five months of evolution from the ancestral +popclient utility. It has since come into extremely wide use in the +Internet/Unix/Linux community. The Red Hat and Debian Linux distributions +include it. A customized version is used at Whole Earth 'Lectronic +Link. Several large ISPs are known to recommend it to Unix-using SLIP +and PPP customers.

+ +Over three hundred people have participated on the fetchmail beta +list. While it's hard to count free software users, we can estimate +based on (a) population figures at the WELL and other known fetchmail +sites, (b) the size of the Linux-using ISP customer base, and (c) the +volume of fetchmail-related talk on USENET. These estimates suggest +that daily fetchmail users number well into the tens of thousands, and +possibly over a hundred thousand.

+ +

The fetchmail paper:

+ +The fetchmail development project was a sociological experiment as well +as a technical effort. I ran it as a test of some theories about why the +Linux development model works.

+ +I wrote a paper, The Cathedral +And The Bazaar, about these theories and the project. It was well +received at Linux Kongress +'97 and the Atlanta Linux +Expo two weeks later. I'll be giving it at Tim O'Reilly's +Perl Conference +August 19th-21st. A lot of people like it.

+ +

Recent releases and where fetchmail is going:

+ +The 4.0 release was intended to be a stable "gold" release which OS +integrators could rely on for a good long time. And so it would have +been for Linux systems, but some minor build problems on DEC Unix and AIX +cropped up. Hence the 4.0.1 release.

+ +After 4.0.1 I wrote: "Development has essentially stopped because +there seems to be little more that needs doing." This turned out to +be not quite true, I've added some minor option switches since, mostly +to deal with weird configuration situations.

+ +The present TO-DO list reads:

+ +

+Generate bounce messages when delivery is refused. See RFC1891, RFC1894. + +
+More log levels? + +
+Use the libmd functions for md5 under Free BSD? (Low priority.) + +
+Send notification mail on messages skipped due to --limit? +

+ +But these are frills. I'm not seeing serious user demand for any of them.

+ +Major changes or additions now seem unlikely until there are +significant changes in or additions to the related protocol RFCs.

+ +

Where you can use fetchmail:

+ +The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been +extensively tested under 4.4BSD, Solaris, AIX, and NEXTSTEP. It should be +readily portable to other Unix variants (it uses GNU autoconf). Early +versions were also ported to QNX, but the status of that port is +presently unknown. It is reported to build and run correctly under AmigaOS.

+ +

Fetchmail's funniest fan letter:

+ +This letter still cracks me up whenever I reread it. + +

The fetchmail button:

+ +If you use fetchmail and like it, here's a nifty fetchmail button you +can put on your web page:

+ +

+ +Thanks to Steve Matuszek for the graphic design. The hand in the +button (and the larger top-of-page graphic) was actually derived from +a color scan of the fetchmail author's hand.

+ +

Fetchmail mirror sites:

+ +There is a FTP mirror of the fetchmail FTP directory (not this WWW +home site, just the current sources and RPM) in Japan at + +ftp://ftp.win.or.jp/pub/network/mail/fetchmail.

+ +

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