Running fetchmail in daemon mode now forces the --fetchall option on.

This is a robustness feature.  It means that if a message is fetched
(and thus marked seen by the mailserver) but not delivered locally
due to some transient error, it will be re-fetched during the next
poll cycle.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=471

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index 7e78b80f..1373840b 100644
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -319,6 +319,12 @@ The
 .B \-N
 or --nodetach option suppresses detachment of the daemon process
 from its control terminal.  This is primarily useful for debugging.
+.PP
+Note that running fetchmail in daemon mode forces the --fetchall option on.
+This is a robustness feature.  It means that if a message is fetched
+(and thus marked seen by the mailserver) but not delivered locally
+due to some transient error, it will be re-fetched during the next
+poll cycle.
 .SH RETRIEVAL FAILURE MODES
 The protocols \fIfetchmail\fR uses to talk to mailservers are next to
 bulletproof.  In normal operation forwarding to port 25, no message is
diff --git a/options.c b/options.c
index 31ca26eb..feb6ea7d 100644
--- a/options.c
+++ b/options.c
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ struct query *ctl;	/* option record to be initialized */
 	case 'd':
 	case LA_DAEMON:
 	    poll_interval = atoi(optarg);
+	    ctl->fetchall = TRUE;
 	    break;
 	case 'N':
 	case LA_NODETACH: