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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-11-14 23:45:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-11-14 23:45:06 +0000 |
| commit | 9f3e7d2977f69ca007956f94d6e0f54229e85d88 (patch) | |
| tree | a594e45407d00408796db905fb6dc2d2b55f1126 /fetchmail.man | |
| parent | 56911cb75d4110ea29279e58e3503ff7de02e7df (diff) | |
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Arrange for fetchall to be forced on after transient errors abort a
poll cycle.
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 054225ef..be3c558c 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -332,7 +332,9 @@ The 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. +Note that while running in daemon mode, transient errors (such as DNS +failures or sendmail delivery refusals) effectively force the fetchall +option on for the duration of the next polling cycle. 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 |