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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 configuration via command line or free-format .poprc file.
* Daemon mode -- fetchmail can be run in background to poll
one or more hosts at a specified interval.
* Delivery via either file-append with mandatory locking or an
MDA you specify, or via SMTP to the client machine's port 25.
* 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.fetchrc.
For a release history, see the file NEWS.
-- esr
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