README for fetchmail

fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented POP2, POP3, APOP,
and IMAP client originally developed (under the name popclient) by Carl
Harris <ceharris@mal.com> and now maintained by Eric S. Raymond
<esr@thyrsus.com>.

fetchmail was developed under Linux and should be readily portable to other
UNIX systems (it uses GNU autoconf).  It has also been ported to QNX; to build
under QNX, see the header comments in the Makefile.

You can find the latest version of fetchmail from Eric's home page

	http://www.ccil.org/~esr

Features of fetchmail include:

	* POP2, POP3, APOP, RPOP and IMAP support with auto-probing for a
	  server on the host if no protocol is specified.

	* Easy control via command line or free-format run control file.

	* Daemon mode -- fetchmail can be run in background to poll
	  one or more hosts at a specified interval.

	* Delivery via via SMTP to the client machine's port 25 (or
	  optionally via either file-append with mandatory locking or an
	  MDA you specify). 

	* From:, To:, Cc:, and Reply-To: headers are rewritten so that 
	  usernames relative to the fetchmail host become fully-qualified
	  Internet addresses.  This enables replies to work correctly.

There is a man page at fetchmail.man.  A sample rc file is at sample.rcfile.
For a release history, see the file NEWS.
							-- esr