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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-09-05 22:51:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-09-05 22:51:44 +0000 |
| commit | 458a7508f537cf67c763d14ad2d71a0a8cc58759 (patch) | |
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Don't recommend multidrop.
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diff --git a/indexgen.sh b/indexgen.sh index 1875523e..6cb74968 100755 --- a/indexgen.sh +++ b/indexgen.sh @@ -51,9 +51,11 @@ Fetchmail offers better security than any other Unix remote-mail client. It supports APOP, KPOP, and IMAP RFC1731 encrypted authentication methods to avoid sending passwords en clair.<p> -Fetchmail can be used as a POP/IMAP-to-SMTP gateway for an entire -DNS domain, collecting mail from a single drop box on an ISP and -SMTP-forwarding it based on envelope and header addresses.<p> +Fetchmail can be used as a POP/IMAP-to-SMTP gateway for an entire DNS +domain, collecting mail from a single drop box on an ISP and +SMTP-forwarding it based on header addresses. (We don't really +recommend this, though, as it may lose important envelope-header +information. ETRN or a UUCP connection is better.)<p> Fetchmail can be started automatically and silently as a system daemon at boot time. When running in this mode with a short poll interval, |