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, all flavors of IMAP (including IMAP4rev1 with RFC1731 Kerberos v4 or GSSAPI authentication), and ESMTP ETRN. The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been extensively tested under 4.4BSD, AIX, HP-UX versions 9 and 10, SunOS, Solaris, NEXTSTEP, and OSF 3.2. It should be readily portable to other Unix variants (it uses GNU autoconf). 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. A beta OS/2 port of fetchmail is available from Jason F. McBrayer at http://studentweb.tulane.edu/%7Ejmcbray/os2. 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.ccil.org/~esr/fetchmail Enjoy! -- esr
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