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authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2008-01-21 02:24:39 +0000
committerMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2008-01-21 02:24:39 +0000
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Add grammar fixes from Dan Jacobson to fetchmail.man. Debian Bug #461642.
svn path=/branches/BRANCH_6-3/; revision=5153
-rw-r--r--NEWS1
-rw-r--r--fetchmail.man8
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c8f13b9c..d9dd25e7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ fetchmail 6.3.9 (not yet released):
"Awakening the background daemon" section.
* The manual page no longer asserts that .fetchids were for exclusive POP3 use,
since it is planned to use the file with IMAP4 later.
+* Add grammar fixes from Dan Jacobson to fetchmail.man. Debian Bug #461642.
# TRANSLATION UPDATES:
* Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index b1f2d265..92c338c1 100644
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -310,12 +310,12 @@ The timeout option allows you to set a server-nonresponse
timeout in seconds. If a mailserver does not send a greeting message
or respond to commands for the given number of seconds,
\fIfetchmail\fR will hang up on it. Without such a timeout
-\fIfetchmail\fR might hang up indefinitely trying to fetch mail from a
+\fIfetchmail\fR might hang indefinitely trying to fetch mail from a
down host. This would be particularly annoying for a \fIfetchmail\fR
-running in background. There is a default timeout which fetchmail\~\-V
+running in the background. There is a default timeout which fetchmail\~\-V
will report. If a given connection receives too many timeouts in
-succession, fetchmail will consider it wedged and stop retrying,
-the calling user will be notified by email if this happens.
+succession, fetchmail will consider it wedged and stop retrying.
+The calling user will be notified by email if this happens.
.TP
.B \-\-plugin <command>
(Keyword: plugin) The plugin option allows you to use an external