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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1998-04-19 23:51:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1998-04-19 23:51:47 +0000 |
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Document a side effect of fetchall.
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index e7ff244c..da9d3e51 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ Retrieve both old (seen) and new messages from the mailserver. The default is to fetch only messages the server has not marked seen. Note that POP2 retrieval behaves as though --all is always on (see RETRIEVAL FAILURE MODES below) and this option does not work with ETRN. +This option has the side effect or forcing POP3 retrieval to use RETR +rather than TOP for retrieval, working around buggy implementations +of the latter in some POP3 servers. .TP .B \-k, --keep (Keyword: keep) |