Package: mpop-gnome
Version: 1.0.17-1
Severity: minor
Hi!
The long description of your package could need some formating
improvements. Please be notified that the lowercase letter o is a bad
choice for a bullet. It is a regular letter and package renderer have no
real chance to know that it is meant as a bulletin. I suggest choosing
either a + or a -, like in this suggested diff:
#v+
Description: POP3 mail retriever - with GNOME keyring support
mpop is a fast and simple fetchmail replacement to retrieve mail from POP3
servers. Its main features are header based mail filtering, multiple
authentication methods, TLS encrypted connections or delivery.
.
There are a few things mpop can do that fetchmail can't or that it
does better:
- o mpop never ever tries to parse mail information except for the
+ - mpop never ever tries to parse mail information except for the
envelope-from address, which is the bare minimum that it has to do.
- o mpop never ever alters mail messages except for adding a "Received"
+ - mpop never ever alters mail messages except for adding a "Received"
header, which is the bare minimum that it has to do.
- o mpop uses several techniques (including pipelining) to reduce the
+ - mpop uses several techniques (including pipelining) to reduce the
POP3 protocol overhead. It is therefore much faster than fetchmail.
- o By default, mpop stores the mail UIDs (unique ids) in one file per
+ - By default, mpop stores the mail UIDs (unique ids) in one file per
account. You can poll different mail accounts in parallel.
- o The progress output is nicer ;-)
+ - The progress output is nicer ;-)
- o You can pipe the headers of a mail through a filter that decides if
+ - You can pipe the headers of a mail through a filter that decides if
the mail should be downloaded, skipped, or deleted. This allows to
delete junk mail from a POP3 server without downloading the entire
message.
- o mpop can deliver mails directly to mbox and maildir mail folders.
+ - mpop can deliver mails directly to mbox and maildir mail folders.
.
This package is compiled with GSASL and TLS/SSL support, and additionally
with GNOME keyring support.
#v-
So long, and thanks for your great work nevertheless!
Rhonda
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