fetchmail-6.2.0: description + notes
Fetchmail is a
one-stop solution to the remote mail retrieval problem for Unix
machines, quite useful to anyone with an intermittent PPP or SLIP
connection to a remote mailserver.
Fetchmail supports all standard mail-retrieval protocols in use on the Internet: POP3,
RPOP, APOP, KPOP, IMAP2bis, IMAP4, IMAP4rev1, ESMTP ETRN, and ODMR.
Fetchmail also fully supports authentication via Compuserve's POP3 with
RPA, Microsoft's NTLM, Demon Internet's SDPS, or CRAM-MD5 authentication
a la RFC2195. Fetchmail also supports end-to-end encryption with
OpenSSL.
Fetchmail forwards collected mail via port 25 to the local SMTP
listener enabling all the normal forwarding, filtering, and aliasing
mechanisms that would apply to local mail or mail arriving via a
full-time TCP/IP connection. Fetchmail can also forward collected mail
to a local mail delivery agent (MDA), like procmail, if the
local SMTP listener is not available.
The Fetchmail package contains also a version of Fetchmail which
supports connections through a SOCKS5 gateway server. The SOCKSified
version of Fetchmail is not selected by default for installation.
Fetchmail was originally written and is being maintained by Eric S.
Raymond of The Hacker's Dictionary and freeware evangelism
fame.
Special thanks to Andrea Suatoni
(a.suatoni@telefonica.net) for
helping port this package to IRIX.
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