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 Easily ingest messages from POP3, IMAP, or local mailboxes into your Django application.
 
 This app allows you to either ingest e-mail content from common e-mail services (as long as the service provides POP3 or IMAP support),
-or directly recieve e-mail messages from stdin (for locally processing messages from Postfix or Exim4).
+or directly recieve e-mail messages from ``stdin`` (for locally processing messages from Postfix or Exim4).
 
 These ingested messages will be stored in the database as Django models and you can process their content at will,
-or if you're in a hurry, by subscribing to a signal.
+or -- if you're in a hurry -- by using a signal receiver.
 
 - Documentation for django-mailbox is available on
   `ReadTheDocs <http://django-mailbox.readthedocs.org/>`_.