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<span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="c1"># indexgen.sh -- generate current version of fetchmail home page.</span>
<span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="nv">goldvers</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;6.2.0&quot;</span>
<span class="nv">goldname</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;6.2.0&quot;</span>
<span class="nv">version</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="sb">`</span>sed<span class="w"> </span>-n<span class="w"> </span>&lt;Makefile.in<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;/VERSION *= */s/VERSION *= *\([^ 	]*\)/\1/p&quot;</span><span class="sb">`</span>
<span class="nv">date</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="sb">`</span>date<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;+%d %b %Y&quot;</span><span class="sb">`</span>

<span class="nb">set</span><span class="w"> </span>--<span class="w"> </span><span class="sb">`</span>timeseries<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">|</span><span class="w"> </span>grep<span class="w"> </span>-v<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;[%#]&quot;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">|</span><span class="w"> </span>head<span class="w"> </span>-1<span class="sb">`</span>
<span class="nv">subscribers</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nv">$4</span>
make<span class="w"> </span>fetchmail
<span class="nb">set</span><span class="w"> </span>--<span class="w"> </span><span class="sb">`</span>ls<span class="w"> </span>-ks<span class="w"> </span>fetchmail<span class="sb">`</span>
<span class="nv">fetchmailsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nv">$1</span>
<span class="nb">set</span><span class="w"> </span>--<span class="w"> </span><span class="sb">`</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="nb">cd</span><span class="w"> </span>/lib<span class="p">;</span><span class="w"> </span>ls<span class="w"> </span>libc-*<span class="o">)</span><span class="sb">`</span>
<span class="nv">glibc</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="sb">`</span><span class="nb">echo</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">$1</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">|</span><span class="w"> </span>sed<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">&#39;s/libc-\(.*\)\.so/\1/&#39;</span><span class="sb">`</span>
<span class="nv">glibc</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;glibc-</span><span class="nv">$glibc</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span>

rm<span class="w"> </span>-f<span class="w"> </span>index.html

<span class="c1"># Compute MD5 checksums for security audit</span>
rm<span class="w"> </span>-f<span class="w"> </span>checksums
<span class="k">for</span><span class="w"> </span>file<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">in</span><span class="w"> </span>fetchmail-<span class="nv">$version</span>.tar.gz<span class="w"> </span>fetchmail-<span class="nv">$version</span>-1.*.rpm
<span class="k">do</span><span class="w"> </span>
<span class="w">    </span>md5sum<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">$file</span><span class="w"> </span>&gt;&gt;checksums
<span class="k">done</span>

<span class="k">if</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">[</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">$version</span><span class="w"> </span>!<span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">$goldvers</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">]</span>
<span class="k">then</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="k">for</span><span class="w"> </span>file<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">in</span><span class="w"> </span>fetchmail-<span class="nv">$goldvers</span>.tar.gz<span class="w"> </span>fetchmail-<span class="nv">$goldvers</span>-1.*.rpm<span class="w"> </span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="k">do</span>
<span class="w">	</span>md5sum<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">$file</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">|</span><span class="w"> </span>sed<span class="w"> </span>-e<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;s: .*/:  :&quot;</span><span class="w"> </span>&gt;&gt;checksums
<span class="w">    </span><span class="k">done</span>
<span class="k">fi</span>

<span class="c1"># Cryptographically sign checksums </span>
gpg<span class="w"> </span>--clearsign<span class="w"> </span>checksums
mv<span class="w"> </span>checksums.asc<span class="w"> </span>checksums

cat<span class="w"> </span>&gt;index.html<span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&lt;&lt;EOF</span>
<span class="s">&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;ISO-8859-1&quot;?&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN&quot;</span>
<span class="s">    &quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;html xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;head&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;link rev=&quot;made&quot; href=&quot;mailto:esr@snark.thyrsus.com&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;link rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; href=&quot;/~esr/sitestyle.css&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot;/&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;meta name=&quot;description&quot; content=&quot;Home page of the fetchmail project&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;meta name=&quot;keywords&quot; content=&quot;&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;meta name=&quot;MSSmartTagsPreventParsing&quot; content=&quot;TRUE&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;title&gt;The fetchmail home page&lt;/title&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;/head&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;body&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;div id=&quot;Header&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;table width=&quot;100%&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; summary=&quot;Canned page header&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;tr&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;td&gt;The fetchmail home page&lt;/td&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;$date&lt;/td&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;/tr&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;/table&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;/div&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;div id=&quot;Menu&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	&lt;hr/&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	&lt;a href=&quot;/~esr&quot; title=&quot;My home page&quot;&gt;Home Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	&lt;a href=&quot;/~esr/sitemap.html&quot; title=&quot;Map of the site&quot;&gt;Site Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	&lt;a href=&quot;/~esr/software.html&quot; title=&quot;Software I maintain&quot;&gt;Software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	&lt;a href=&quot;/~esr/projects.html&quot; title=&quot;My projects&quot;&gt;Projects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	&lt;a href=&quot;/~esr/faqs/&quot; title=&quot;My FAQ documents&quot;&gt;HOWTOs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	&lt;a href=&quot;/~esr/writings/&quot; title=&quot;Essays and ruminations&quot;&gt;Essays&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	&lt;a href=&quot;/~esr/personal.html&quot; title=&quot;Portrait of the author&quot;&gt;Personal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ibiblio.org/esrblog/&quot;&gt;Weblog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;	</span>
<span class="s">	&lt;a href=&quot;/~esr/netfreedom/&quot;&gt;Freedom!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	&lt;a href=&quot;/~esr/guns/&quot;&gt;Firearms!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	&lt;hr/&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;/div&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;div id=&quot;Content&quot;&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;h1&gt;The fetchmail Home Page&lt;/h1&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;/center&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Note: if you are a stranded fetchmail.com user, we&#39;re sorry but</span>
<span class="s">we have nothing to do with that site and cannot help you.  It&#39;s just an</span>
<span class="s">unfortunate coincidence of names.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;h1&gt;What fetchmail does:&lt;/h1&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented</span>
<span class="s">remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over</span>
<span class="s">on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports</span>
<span class="s">every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3,</span>
<span class="s">RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of &lt;a</span>
<span class="s">href=&quot;http://www.imap.org&quot;&gt;IMAP&lt;/a&gt;, ETRN, and ODMR. It can even</span>
<span class="s">support IPv6 and IPSEC.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Fetchmail retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it via</span>
<span class="s">SMTP, so it can then be read by normal mail user agents such as &lt;a</span>
<span class="s">href=&quot;http://www.mutt.org/&quot;&gt;mutt&lt;/a&gt;, elm(1) or BSD Mail.</span>
<span class="s">It allows all your system MTA&#39;s filtering, forwarding, and aliasing</span>
<span class="s">facilities to work just as they would on normal mail.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Fetchmail offers better security than any other Unix remote-mail</span>
<span class="s">client.  It supports APOP, KPOP, OTP, Compuserve RPA, Microsoft NTLM,</span>
<span class="s">and IMAP RFC1731 encrypted authentication methods including CRAM-MD5</span>
<span class="s">to avoid sending passwords en clair. It can be configured to support</span>
<span class="s">end-to-end encryption via tunneling with &lt;a</span>
<span class="s">href=&quot;http://www.openssh.com/&quot;&gt;ssh, the Secure Shell&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Fetchmail can be used as a POP/IMAP-to-SMTP gateway for an entire DNS</span>
<span class="s">domain, collecting mail from a single drop box on an ISP and</span>
<span class="s">SMTP-forwarding it based on header addresses. (We don&#39;t really</span>
<span class="s">recommend this, though, as it may lose important envelope-header</span>
<span class="s">information.  ETRN or a UUCP connection is better.)&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Fetchmail can be started automatically and silently as a system daemon</span>
<span class="s">at boot time.  When running in this mode with a short poll interval,</span>
<span class="s">it is pretty hard for anyone to tell that the incoming mail link is</span>
<span class="s">not a full-time &quot;push&quot; connection.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Fetchmail is easy to configure.  You can edit its dotfile directly, or</span>
<span class="s">use the interactive GUI configurator (fetchmailconf) supplied with the</span>
<span class="s">fetchmail distribution.  It is also directly supported in linuxconf</span>
<span class="s">versions 1.16r8 and later.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Fetchmail is fast and lightweight.  It packs all its standard</span>
<span class="s">features (POP3, IMAP, and ETRN support) in ${fetchmailsize}K of core on a</span>
<span class="s">Pentium under Linux.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Fetchmail is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opensource.org&quot;&gt;open-source&lt;/a&gt;</span>
<span class="s">software.  The openness of the sources is your strongest possible</span>
<span class="s">assurance of quality and reliability.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;h1&gt;Where to find out more about fetchmail:&lt;/h1&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;fetchmail-features.html&quot;&gt;Fetchmail Feature List&lt;/a&gt; for more</span>
<span class="s">about what fetchmail does.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;See the on-line &lt;a href=&quot;fetchmail-man.html&quot;&gt;manual page&lt;/a&gt; for</span>
<span class="s">basics.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;fetchmail-FAQ.html&quot;&gt;HTML Fetchmail FAQ&lt;/a&gt; for</span>
<span class="s">troubleshooting help.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;design-notes.html&quot;&gt;Fetchmail Design Notes&lt;/a&gt;</span>
<span class="s">for discussion of some of the design choices in fetchmail.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;See the project&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;todo.html&quot;&gt;To-Do list&lt;/a&gt; for indications</span>
<span class="s">of known problems and requested features.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;h1&gt;How to get fetchmail:&lt;/h1&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;You can get any of the following leading-edge resources here:&lt;/p&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;ul&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;fetchmail-$version.tar.gz&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	Gzipped source archive of fetchmail $version&lt;/a&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;fetchmail-$version-1.i386.rpm&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	Intel binary RPM of fetchmail $version (uses $glibc)&lt;/a&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;fetchmail-$version-1.src.rpm&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	Source RPM of fetchmail $version&lt;/a&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;/ul&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;MD5 &lt;a href=&quot;checksums&quot;&gt;checksums&lt;/a&gt; are available for these files; the</span>
<span class="s">checksum file is cryptographically signed and can be verified with the</span>
<span class="s">command:&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;pre&gt;</span>
<span class="s">gpg --verify checksums</span>
<span class="s">&lt;/pre&gt;</span>

<span class="s">EOF</span>

<span class="k">if</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">[</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">$version</span><span class="w"> </span>!<span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">$goldvers</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">]</span>
<span class="k">then</span>
<span class="w">    </span>cat<span class="w"> </span>&gt;&gt;index.html<span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&lt;&lt;EOF</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Or you can get the last \`gold&#39; version, $goldname:&lt;/p&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;ul&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;fetchmail-$goldvers.tar.gz&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	Gzipped source archive of fetchmail $goldname&lt;/a&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;fetchmail-$goldvers-1.i386.rpm&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	Intel binary RPM of fetchmail $goldname (uses glibc)&lt;/a&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;fetchmail-$goldvers-1.alpha.rpm&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	Alpha binary RPM of fetchmail $goldname (uses glibc)&lt;/a&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;fetchmail-$goldvers-1.src.rpm&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">	Source RPM of fetchmail $goldname&lt;/a&gt;</span>
<span class="s">&lt;/ul&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;fetchmail-$goldvers.tar.gz.asc&quot;&gt;detached GPG</span>
<span class="s">signature&lt;/a&gt; for the binary tarball can be used to check it for</span>
<span class="s">correctness, with the command&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;pre&gt;</span>
<span class="s">gpg --verify fetchmail-$goldvers.tar.gz.asc fetchmail-$goldvers.tar.gz</span>
<span class="s">&lt;/pre&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;For differences between the leading-edge $version and gold $goldname versions,</span>
<span class="s">see the distribution &lt;a href=&quot;NEWS&quot;&gt;NEWS&lt;/a&gt; file.&lt;/p&gt;</span>
<span class="s">EOF</span>
<span class="k">fi</span>

cat<span class="w"> </span>&gt;&gt;index.html<span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&lt;&lt;EOF</span>
<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;(Note that the binary RPMs don&#39;t have the POP2, OTP, IPv6, Kerberos,</span>
<span class="s">GSSAPI, Compuserve RPA, Microsoft NTLM, or GNU gettext</span>
<span class="s">internationalization support compiled in.  To get any of these you</span>
<span class="s">will have to build from sources.)&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;The latest version of fetchmail is also carried in the </span>
<span class="s">&lt;a href=&quot;http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/pop/!INDEX.html&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">Metalab remote mail tools directory&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;h1&gt;Getting help with fetchmail:&lt;/h1&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;There is a fetchmail-friends list for people who want to discuss</span>
<span class="s">fixes and improvements in fetchmail and help co-develop it.  It&#39;s a</span>
<span class="s">MailMan list, which you can sign up for at &lt;a</span>
<span class="s">href=&quot;http://lists.ccil.org/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-friends&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">fetchmail-friends@ccil.org&lt;/a&gt;.  There is also an announcements-only</span>
<span class="s">list, &lt;a</span>
<span class="s">href=&quot;http://lists.ccil.org/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-announce&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">fetchmail-announce@lists.ccil.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Note: before submitting a question to the list, &lt;strong&gt;please read</span>
<span class="s">the &lt;a href=&quot;fetchmail-FAQ.html&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (especially item &lt;a</span>
<span class="s">href=&quot;fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3&quot;&gt;G3&lt;/a&gt; on how to report bugs).  We</span>
<span class="s">tend to get the same three newbie questions over and over again.  The</span>
<span class="s">FAQ covers them like a blanket.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Fetchmail was written and is maintained by &lt;a</span>
<span class="s">href=&quot;../index.html&quot;&gt;Eric S. Raymond&lt;/a&gt;.  There are some designated</span>
<span class="s">backup maintainers (&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:rfunk@funknet.net&quot;&gt;Rob Funk&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a</span>
<span class="s">href=&quot;http://www.dallas.net/~fox/&quot;&gt;David DeSimone aka Fuzzy Fox&lt;/a&gt;,</span>
<span class="s">&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:imdave@mcs.net&quot;&gt;Dave Bodenstab&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a </span>
<span class="s">href=&quot;mailto:shetye@bombay.retortsoft.com&quot;&gt;Sunil Shetye&lt;/a&gt;).  Other backup</span>
<span class="s">maintainers may be added in the future, in order to ensure continued</span>
<span class="s">support should Eric S.  Raymond drop permanently off the net for any</span>
<span class="s">reason.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;h1&gt;You can help improve fetchmail:&lt;/h1&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;I welcome your code contributions.  But even if you don&#39;t write code,</span>
<span class="s">you can help fetchmail improve.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;If you administer a site that runs a post-office server, you may be</span>
<span class="s">able help improve fetchmail by lending me a test account on your site.</span>
<span class="s">Note that I do not need a shell account for this purpose, just a </span>
<span class="s">maildrop.  Nor am I interested in collecting maildrops per se --</span>
<span class="s">what I&#39;m collecting is different &lt;em&gt;kinds of servers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Before each release, I run a test harness that sends date-stamped </span>
<span class="s">test mail to each site on my regression-test list, then tries to</span>
<span class="s">retrieve it.  Please take a look at my &lt;a href=&quot;testservers.html&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">list of test servers&lt;/a&gt;.  If you can lend me an account on a kind</span>
<span class="s">of server that is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; already on this list, please do.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;h1&gt;Who uses fetchmail:&lt;/h1&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Fetchmail entered full production status with the 2.0.0 version in</span>
<span class="s">November 1996 after about five months of evolution from the ancestral</span>
<span class="s">&lt;code&gt;popclient&lt;/code&gt; utility. It has since come into extremely wide use</span>
<span class="s">in the Internet/Unix/Linux community.  The Red Hat, Debian and</span>
<span class="s">Suse Linux distributions and their derivatives all include it.  A</span>
<span class="s">customized version is used at Whole Earth &#39;Lectronic Link. Several</span>
<span class="s">large ISPs are known to recommend it to Unix-using SLIP and PPP</span>
<span class="s">customers.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Somewhere around a thousand people have participated on the fetchmail</span>
<span class="s">beta lists (at time of current release there were $subscribers on the</span>
<span class="s">friends and announce lists).  While it&#39;s hard to count the users of</span>
<span class="s">open-source software, we can estimate based on (a) population figures</span>
<span class="s">at the WELL and other known fetchmail sites, (b) the size of the</span>
<span class="s">Linux-using ISP customer base, and (c) the volume of fetchmail-related</span>
<span class="s">talk on USENET.  These estimates suggest that daily fetchmail users</span>
<span class="s">number well into the hundreds of thousands, and possibly over a million.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;h1&gt;The sociology of fetchmail:&lt;/h1&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;The fetchmail development project was a sociological experiment as well</span>
<span class="s">as a technical effort.  I ran it as a test of some theories about why the</span>
<span class="s">Linux development model works.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;I wrote a paper, &lt;a</span>
<span class="s">href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/&quot;&gt;The</span>
<span class="s">Cathedral And The Bazaar&lt;/a&gt;, about these theories and the project.</span>
<span class="s">I developed the line of analysis it suggested in two later essays.</span>
<span class="s">These papers became quite popular and (to my continuing astonishment) may</span>
<span class="s">have actually helped change the world.  Chase the title link, above,</span>
<span class="s">for links to all three papers.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;I have done some analysis on the information in the project NEWS file.</span>
<span class="s">You can view a &lt;a href=&quot;history.html&quot;&gt;statistical history&lt;/a&gt; showing</span>
<span class="s">levels of participation and release frequency over time.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;h1&gt;Recent releases and where fetchmail is going:&lt;/h1&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Fetchmail is now sufficiently stable and effective that I&#39;m getting</span>
<span class="s">very little pressure to fix things or add features.  Development has</span>
<span class="s">slowed way down, release frequency has dropped off, and we&#39;re</span>
<span class="s">basically in maintainance mode.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Major changes or additions therefore seem unlikely until there are</span>
<span class="s">significant changes in or additions to the related protocol RFCs.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;h1&gt;Where you can use fetchmail:&lt;/h1&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been</span>
<span class="s">extensively tested under 4.4BSD, SunOS, Solaris, AIX, and NEXTSTEP.  It</span>
<span class="s">should be readily portable to other Unix variants (it requires only</span>
<span class="s">POSIX plus BSD sockets, and uses GNU autoconf).&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Fetchmail is supported only for Unix by its official maintainers.</span>
<span class="s">However, it is reported to build and run correctly under BeOS,</span>
<span class="s">AmigaOS, Rhapsody, and QNX as well.  There is a CygWin port.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;h1&gt;Related resources:&lt;/h1&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Jochen Hayek is developing a set of</span>
<span class="s">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ACM.org/~Jochen_Hayek/JHimap_utils/&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">IMAP tools in Python&lt;/a&gt; that read your .fetchmailrc file and are</span>
<span class="s">designed to work with fetchmail.   Jochen&#39;s tools can report selected</span>
<span class="s">header lines, or move incoming messages to named mailboxes based on</span>
<span class="s">the contents of headers.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Donncha O Caoihm has written a Perl script called </span>
<span class="s">&lt;a href=&quot;http://cork.linux.ie/projects/install-sendmail/&quot;&gt;install-sendmail&lt;/a&gt;</span>
<span class="s">that assists you in installing sendmail and fetchmail together.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Peter Hawkins has written a script called &lt;a</span>
<span class="s">href=&quot;http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/gotmail.php&quot;&gt;gotmail&lt;/a&gt; that</span>
<span class="s">can retrieve Hotmail. Another script, &lt;a</span>
<span class="s">href=&quot;http://yosucker.sourceforge.net&quot;&gt;yosucker&lt;/a&gt;, can retrieve</span>
<span class="s">Yahoo webmail.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;There&#39;s a program called</span>
<span class="s">&lt;http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/&#39;&gt;mailfilter&lt;/a&gt; which can be used</span>
<span class="s">to do span filtering, that works particularly well called from fetchmail&#39;s</span>
<span class="s">&lt;code&gt;preconnect&lt;/code&gt; directive,&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;A hacker identifying himself simply as \`Steines&#39; has written a</span>
<span class="s">filter which rewrites the to-line with a line which only includes</span>
<span class="s">receipients for a given domain and renames the old to-line. It also</span>
<span class="s">rewrites the domain-part of addresses if the offical domain is</span>
<span class="s">different from the local domain. You can find it &lt;a </span>
<span class="s">href=&quot;http://www.steines.com/mailf/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;h1&gt;Fetchmail&#39;s funniest fan letter:&lt;/h1&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;a href=&quot;funny.html&quot;&gt;This letter&lt;/a&gt; still cracks me up whenever I reread it. </span>

<span class="s">&lt;h1&gt;The fetchmail button:&lt;/h1&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;If you use fetchmail and like it, here&#39;s a nifty fetchmail button you</span>
<span class="s">can put on your web page:&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;fetchmail.png&quot; alt=&quot;fetchmail logo&quot; /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~smatus1/&quot;&gt;Steve</span>
<span class="s">Matuszek&lt;/a&gt; for the graphic design.  The hand in the button (and the</span>
<span class="s">larger top-of-page graphic) was actually derived from a color scan of</span>
<span class="s">the fetchmail author&#39;s hand.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;h1&gt;Fetchmail mirror sites:&lt;/h1&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;There is a FTP mirror of the current sources and RPMs in Japan at</span>
<span class="s">&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.win.ne.jp/pub/network/mail/fetchmail&quot;&gt;</span>
<span class="s">ftp://ftp.win.ne.jp/pub/network/mail/fetchmail&lt;/a&gt;.</span>

<span class="s">&lt;h1&gt;Reviews and Awards&lt;/h1&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Fetchmail was DaveCentral&#39;s Best Of Linux winner for</span>
<span class="s">&lt;a href=&quot;http://linux.davecentral.com/bol_19990630.html&quot;&gt;June 30 1999&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

<span class="s">&lt;p&gt;Fetchmail was a five-star Editor&#39;s Pick at Softlandindia.&lt;/p&gt;</span>

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