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Fetchmail - Remote mail retrieval utility

Fetchmail is a remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility for use over on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, ESMTP ETRN ,IPv6. and IPSEC. It retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it via SMTP, so normal mail user agents such as mutt, elm or BSD Mail can read it. An MTA's filtering, forwarding, and aliasing facilities work just as they would on normal mail.

It supports APOP, KPOP, OTP, Compuserve RPA, Microsoft NTLM, and IMAP RFC1731 encrypted authentication methods to avoid sending passwords en clair, and can support end-to-end encryption via tunneling with ssh. Fetchmail can start automatically and silently as a system daemon at boot time. You can edit its dotfile directly, or use the interactive GUI configurator (fetchmailconf) supplied with the distribution.

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail
Source tarball	http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-6.2.2.tar.gz

Version 6.2.2 (stable) released on 2003-03-17

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User FAQ available from www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html

Support contacts

Announce List	<fetchmail-announce@ccil.org>
Help List	<fetchmail-friends@ccil.org>
Developer List	<fetchmail-friends@ccil.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Developers	Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>

Related information

Interfaces	daemon, command line, X Window System
Programs	fetchmailconf
Source languages	C
Related programs	mutt, Balsa, Elm

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-04-08
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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