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diff --git a/archivemail.1 b/archivemail.1 index 04cf8a3..4e9b298 100644 --- a/archivemail.1 +++ b/archivemail.1 @@ -239,7 +239,6 @@ Display brief summary information about how to run \fBarchivemail\fR\&. .SH "NOTES" .PP \fBarchivemail\fR requires \fBpython\fR(1) version 2.3 or later. -.PP When reading an \fBmbox\fR-format mailbox, \fBarchivemail\fR will create a lockfile with the extension \fI\&.lock\fR so that procmail will not deliver to the mailbox while it is being processed. It will @@ -250,9 +249,10 @@ mailbox while it is being read. \fBarchivemail\fR will always attempt to preserve the mode, last-access and last-modify times of the input mailbox. However, archive mailboxes are always created with a mode of \fB0600\fR\&. -.PP If \fBarchivemail\fR finds a pre-existing archive mailbox it will append rather than overwrite that archive. +\fBarchivemail\fR will refuse to operate on mailboxes that are symbolic +links or create tempfiles or archives in world-writable directories. .PP \fBarchivemail\fR attempts to find the delivery date of a message by looking for valid dates in the following headers, in order of precedence: @@ -264,11 +264,8 @@ will use the last-modified file timestamp on \fBMH\fR and \fBMaildir\fR format mailboxes, or the date on the \fBFrom\fR line on \fBmbox\fR-format mailboxes. .PP -The conversion from other formats to \fBmbox\fR(5) will silently overwrite existing +A conversion from other formats to \fBmbox\fR(5) will silently overwrite existing \fBStatus\fR and \fBX-Status\fR message headers. -.PP -\fBarchivemail\fR will refuse to operate on mailboxes that are symbolic -links or create tempfiles or archives in world-writable directories. .SS "IMAP" .PP When \fBarchivemail\fR processes an \fBIMAP\fR folder, all messages @@ -280,9 +277,9 @@ This does not apply, however, if you run \fBarchivemail\fR with the options .PP \fBarchivemail\fR relies on server-side searches to determine the messages that should be archived. -When matching dates, \fBIMAP\fR servers refer to server internal message -dates, and these may differ from both delivery time and the message's -\fBDate\fR header. +When matching message dates, \fBIMAP\fR servers refer to server internal +message dates, and these may differ from both delivery time of a message and +its \fBDate\fR header. Also, there exist broken servers which do not implement server side searches. .SS "IMAP URLS" .PP |