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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-10-01 17:55:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-10-01 17:55:11 +0000 |
| commit | 38e47dd0eeb34a5bd2cda0ba2cb7e1da6093761b (patch) | |
| tree | 434186e07db12c4b80305b8ccd1eb1494e9767e4 | |
| parent | 493c20f6ca98bf5f2772d3d0974eb63cedefd9c2 (diff) | |
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Document IMAP's increased robustness.
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 40a84806..1f2dec19 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -466,8 +466,9 @@ software. .pp Running more than one concurrent instance of .I fetchmail -on the same mailbox may cause messages to be lost or remain unfetched. -(This is a design problem of the POP2, POP3 and IMAP2bis protocols.) +in POP2 or POP3 mode pointed at the same mailbox may cause messages to +be lost or remain unfetched. (This is a design problem of the POP2 and +POP3 protocols; IMAP is less vulnerable.) .PP If, using POP3, you find that messages you've already read on the server are being fetched even when you don't specify --all, blame |