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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-07-28 16:16:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-07-28 16:16:13 +0000 |
| commit | 7301e74a9bfbf0abaf2782bc2b7112a84bcd32c8 (patch) | |
| tree | d7c878d5f6eb90b1a132cc200b44ea022c9fa144 /fetchmail.man | |
| parent | f7aef23b0c18a1ee4724f9e10984427cdee07c5d (diff) | |
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Added the dropstatus option.
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 792093fb..1311cfe6 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -686,6 +686,7 @@ Legal user options are stripcr forcecr pass8bits + dropstatus dns no keep no flush @@ -694,6 +695,7 @@ Legal user options are no stripcr no forcecr no pass8bits + no dropstatus no dns no envelope limit @@ -706,9 +708,9 @@ comma-separated list of names following them. .PP All options correspond to the obvious command-line arguments, except the following: `via', `interval', `aka', `is', `to', `dns'/`no dns', -\&`password', \&`preconnect', `localdomains', `stripcr'/`no stripcr' , -\&`forcecr'/`no forcecr', `pass8bits'/`no pass8bits' and `no -received'. +\&`password', \&`preconnect', `localdomains', `stripcr'/`no stripcr', +\&`forcecr'/`no forcecr', `pass8bits'/`no pass8bits' `dropstatus/no +dropstatus', and `no received'. .PP The `via' option is for use with ssh, or if you want to have more than one configuration pointing at the same site. If it is present, @@ -819,6 +821,14 @@ is forced to declare BODY=8BITMIME to any ESMTP-capable listener. If the listener is 8-bit-clean (as all the major ones now are) the right thing will probably result. .PP +The `dropstatus' option controls whether nonempty Status lines are +retained in fetched mail (the default) or discarded. Retaining them +allows your MUA to see what messages (if any) were marked seen on the +client. On the other hand, it can confuse some new-mail notifiers, +which assume that anything with a Status line in it has been seen. +(Note: the empty Status lines inserted by some buggy POP servers are +unconditionally discarded.) +.PP Legal protocol identifiers are auto (or AUTO) |