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- fetchmail README
- 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
- retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it to your local
- (client) machine's delivery system, so it can then be be read by
- normal mail user agents such as elm(1) or Mail(1).
- fetchmail supports standard all mail-retrieval protocols in use on the
- Internet: POP2, POP3 (including POP3 with RFC1938 one-time passwords),
- RPOP, APOP, KPOP, Compuserve's POP3 with RPA, Microsoft's NTLM, Demon
- Internet's SDPS, all flavors of IMAP (including IMAP4rev1 with RFC1731
- Kerberos v4 or GSSAPI authentication or CRAM-MD5 authentication), and
- ESMTP ETRN. Fetchmail also supports end-to-end encryption with OpenSSL.
- The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been
- extensively tested under the BSD variants, AIX, HP-UX versions 9 and
- 10, SunOS, Solaris, NEXTSTEP, OSF 3.2, IRIX, and Rhapsody.
- It should be readily portable to other Unix variants (it uses GNU
- autoconf). It has been ported to LynxOS and will build there without
- special action. It has also been ported to QNX; to build under QNX,
- see the header comments in the Makefile. It is reported to build and
- run under AmigaOS.
- Fetchmail is Y2K safe.
- See the distribution files FEATURES for a full list of features, NEWS
- for detailed information on recent changes and NOTES for design notes.
- The fetchmail code appears to be stable and free of bugs affecting
- normal operation (that is, retrieving from POP3 or IMAP in single-drop
- mode and forwarding via SMTP to sendmail). It will probably undergo
- substantial change only if and when support for a new retrieval
- protocol or authentication mode is added.
- You can easily fetch the latest version of fetchmail via FTP from the
- following FTP directory:
- ftp://ftp.ccil.org/pub/esr/fetchmail
- Or you can get it from the fetchmail home page:
- http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail
- Enjoy!
- -- esr