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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1998-12-14 15:34:26 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1998-12-14 15:34:26 +0000
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Search on both pollnames and via names.
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@@ -562,7 +562,8 @@ file, it will look for a
.I .netrc
file in your home directory before requesting one interactively; if an
entry matching the mailserver is found in that file, the password will
-be used. See the
+be used. Fetchmail first looks for a match on poll name; if it finds none,
+it checks for a match on via name. See the
.IR ftp (1)
man page for details of the syntax of the
.I .netrc