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More flexibility is needed when specifying programs to move mail, so
I've made a tiny format-spec library that allows one to specify this
in a more convenient way.  So people who have used :program before
will experience breakage in 0.76.

Quoth the new manual:

    `:program'
          The program to use to fetch mail from the POP server.  This
          is should be a `format'-like string.  Here's an example:

               fetchmail %u@%s -P %p %t

          The valid format specifier characters are:

         `t'
               The name of the file the mail is to be moved to.  This
               must always be included in this string.

         `s'
               The name of the server.

         `P'
               The port number of the server.

         `u'
               The user name to use.

         `p'
               The password to use.

          The values used for these specs are taken from the values you
          give the corresponding keywords.



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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen