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intro update to fetchmail, mutt, procmail, db

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1<sect2>
2<title>Contents</title>
3
4<para>The <application>fetchmail</application> package contains
5<command>fetchmail</command> and <command>fetchmailconf</command>.</para>
6
7</sect2>
8
9<sect2><title>Description</title>
10
11<sect3><title>fetchmail</title>
12<para>When executed as a user this will source that users <filename>~/.fetchmailrc</filename> and download the appropriate mail. When run as root ALL users
13who have a <filename>.fetchmailrc</filename> will have their mail downloaded
14and delivered accordingly.</para></sect3>
15
16<sect3><title>fetchmailconf</title>
17<para>This program provides a <application>Tk</application>
18<acronym>GUI</acronym> interface to your
19<filename>~/.fetchmailrc</filename> making it
20much easier to configure. However you will require,
21<application>Python</application>, and it must
22have the Tkinker module available.</para></sect3>
23
24</sect2>
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