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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2000-03-13 21:03:11 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2000-03-13 21:03:11 +0000
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We now match suffixes.
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2 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fetchmail-features.html b/fetchmail-features.html
index 33dd5950..4643ee50 100644
--- a/fetchmail-features.html
+++ b/fetchmail-features.html
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/03/06 06:34:43 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/03/13 21:03:10 $
</table>
<HR>
@@ -19,7 +19,11 @@
<H2>Since 5.0:</H2>
<UL>
<LI>
-Fetcmail can optionally use the RFC 2177 IDLE extension on an IMAP
+The aka option now matches hostname suffixes, so (for example) saying
+`aka netaxs.com' will match not just netaxs.com but also (say)
+pop3.netaxs.com and mail.netaxs.com.
+<LI>
+Fetchmail can optionally use the RFC 2177 IDLE extension on an IMAP
server that supports it.
<LI>
@@ -196,7 +200,7 @@ get-mail, gwpop, pimp-1.0, pop-perl5-1.2, popc, popmail-1.6 and upop.<P>
<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/03/06 06:34:43 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/03/13 21:03:10 $
</table>
<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index faf4d1d9..fa39ad11 100644
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -1398,7 +1398,11 @@ optimization hack that allows you to trade space for speed. When
.IR fetchmail ,
while processing a multidrop mailbox, grovels through message headers
looking for names of the mailserver, pre-declaring common ones can
-save it from having to do DNS lookups.
+save it from having to do DNS lookups. Note: the names you give
+as arguments to `aka' are matched as suffixes -- if you specify
+(say) `aka netaxs.com', this will match not just a hostnamed
+netaxs.com, but any hostname that ends with `.netaxs.com'; such as
+(say) pop3.netaxs.com and mail.netaxs.com.
.PP
The `localdomains' option allows you to declare a list of domains
which fetchmail should consider local. When fetchmail is parsing