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From felix@crowfix.com  Wed Jan  8 13:50:03 1997
Message-Id: &lt;199701081745.JAA02194@crowfix.com&gt;
From: Felix Morley Finch &lt;felix@crowfix.com&gt;
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Subject: fetchmail 2.5

What the heck is WRONG with you?  This thing installed and worked
RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX!  The sample .fetchmailrc file WAS TOO EASY TO
FOLLOW!  What are you, some kind of nut?


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Honestly, I was not expecting it to be so doggone EASY to get it up
and running.  Sure surprised me!  Of course, it hasn't actually
retreived any mail yet, but that's my problem, not yours.

Thanks very very much.

-- 
     ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._.
       Felix Finch, scarecrow repairer / felix@crowfix.com
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I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
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<p>(Um, I suppose I should add that he did in fact succeed in
getting fetchmail to retrieve his mail.)</p>

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