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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-10-13 16:45:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-10-13 16:45:09 +0000 |
| commit | e0ec82cf5e4e9ca3070ed5a3ff51b1ff927fe7f4 (patch) | |
| tree | fd6b972516acea5c0155abaef7282a63bb36708f /fetchmail.man | |
| parent | 3fb4233b2db4486b6e593546798604bbdaf45613 (diff) | |
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Add settable server-nonresponse timeout
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 863d242d..f8e3236f 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -284,6 +284,17 @@ will kill a running daemon process. Otherwise, calling fetchmail with a daemon in the background sends a wakeup signal to the daemon, forcing it to poll mailservers immediately. .PP +The +.B -t +or +.B --timeout +option allows you to set a server-nonresponse timeout in seconds. If +a mailserver does not send a greeting message or respond to commands for +the given number of seconds, \fIfetchmail\fR will hang up on it. +Without such a timeout \fIfetchmail\fR might hang up indefinitely +trying to fetch mail from a down host. This would be particularly +annoying for a server running in background. +.PP The .B -L or @@ -368,6 +379,7 @@ Legal server options are: skip noskip authenticate (or auth) + timeout Legal user options are |