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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2000-03-05 22:41:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2000-03-05 22:41:22 +0000 |
| commit | 2520ad54cf89894c178e5dca3cb7968edf481157 (patch) | |
| tree | 8eb13bdce4c00598d2120a3715f9bfcb5ac645d5 /fetchmail.man | |
| parent | 3a04ee22d1b955e9e1f1f27f5e8473e07b2b1afc (diff) | |
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Deal with the possibility that we might be running as a subprocess.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=2784
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 2bf214a3..0188a0de 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -1819,7 +1819,10 @@ mail. If you don't know what a socket is, don't worry about it -- just treat this as an 'unrecoverable error'. .IP 3 The user authentication step failed. This usually means that a bad -user-id, password, or APOP id was specified. +user-id, password, or APOP id was specified. Or it may mean that you +tried to run fetchmail under circumstances where it did not have +standard input attached to a terminal and could not prompt for a +missing password. .IP 4 Some sort of fatal protocol error was detected. .IP 5 |