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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/mail.scm | 16 |
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/mail.scm b/gnu/packages/mail.scm index 06823a09a5..15a53a337d 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/mail.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/mail.scm @@ -2435,10 +2435,18 @@ compatibility shims for the @command{sendmail}, @command{mailq}, and (inputs (list tdb openssl zlib)) (home-page "https://github.com/nicm/fdm") - (synopsis "Mail Retrieval Agent (MRA) and Mail Delivery Agent (MDA)") - (description "fdm is a program designed to fetch mail from POP3 -or IMAP servers, or receive local mail from stdin, and -deliver it in various ways.") + (synopsis + "@acronym{MRA, Mail Retrieval Agent} and @acronym{MDA, Mail Delivery Agent}") + (description "fdm fetches and delivers mail in various ways. + +Mail may be fetched from IMAP or POP3 servers, from local maildirs, or read +from standard input. It is then filtered based on regular expressions, its +size or age, or the output of a (shell) command. It can be rewritten by an +external process, dropped, left on the server or delivered into maildirs, +mboxes, to a file or pipe, or any combination. + +fdm is primarily designed for use by a single user, but can use privilege +separation to safely deliver mail in multi-user setups.") (license ;; Why point to a source file? Well, all the individual files have a ;; copy of this license in their headers, but there's no seprate file |