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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2000-04-08 07:49:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2000-04-08 07:49:50 +0000 |
| commit | 421c865ea119bcd58fc9defbb87e8e5596add7bd (patch) | |
| tree | 6259add3d205ae9380432b00ee20f8d8a6127579 | |
| parent | ce83d76ae4d599a480f051be15a0c8a86b47305f (diff) | |
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Warn that IDLE is broken.
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index fa276971..49307bb7 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -1988,6 +1988,10 @@ while a background instance is running and break the syntax, the background instance will die silently. Unfortunately, it can't die noisily because we don't yet know whether syslog should be enabled. .PP +The RFC 2177 IDLE support is flaky. It sort of works, but may generate +spurious socket error messages or silently hang in the presence of +various network or server errors. +.PP Send comments, bug reports, gripes, and the like to the fetchmail-friends list <fetchmail-friends@ccil.org>. An HTML FAQ is available at the fetchmail home page; surf to |