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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-08-01 14:59:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-08-01 14:59:10 +0000 |
| commit | f6893683d1b9b22523e65a938c01dd6ae343290b (patch) | |
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 09f1d6e2..304ad9ec 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -88,8 +88,10 @@ Return a status code to indicate whether there is mail waiting, without actually fetching or deleting mail (see EXIT CODES below). This option turns off daemon mode (in which it would be useless). It doesn't play well with queries to multiple sites, and doesn't work -with ETRN. It's also prone to false positives if you leave read but -undeleted mail in your server mailbox. +with ETRN. It will return a false positive if you leave read but +undeleted mail in your server mailbox and your fetch protocol can't +tell kept messages from new ones. This means it will work with IMAP, +not work with POP2, and may occasionally flake out under POP3. .TP .B \-s, --silent Silent mode. Suppresses all progress/status messages that are normally |