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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 6c365754..9861f103 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The program can gather mail from servers supporting any of the common mail-retrieval protocols: POP2, POP3, IMAP2bis, and IMAP4. It can also use the ESMTP ETRN extension. (The RFCs describing all these -protocols are listed at the end of this document.) +protocols are listed at the end of this manual page.) .PP While .I fetchmail @@ -41,9 +41,10 @@ port 25 on the machine it is running on (localhost), just as though it were being passed in over a normal TCP/IP link. The mail will then be delivered locally via your system's MDA (Mail Delivery Agent, usually \fIsendmail\fR(8) but your system may use a different one such -as \fIsmail\fR, \fImmdf\fR, or \fIqmail\fR). All the delivery-control -mechanisms (such as \fI.forward\fR files) normally available through -your system MDA and local delivery agents will therefore work. +as \fIsmail\fR, \fImmdf\fR, \fIexim\fR, or \fIqmail\fR). All the +delivery-control mechanisms (such as \fI.forward\fR files) normally +available through your system MDA and local delivery agents will +therefore work. .PP If the program .I fetchmailconf @@ -69,14 +70,15 @@ declarations. .PP Each server name that you specify following the options on the command line will be queried. If you don't specify any servers -on the command line, each server in your +on the command line, each `poll' entry in your .I ~/.fetchmailrc file will be queried. .PP To facilitate the use of .I fetchmail -In scripts, pipelines, etc., it returns an appropriate exit code upon +in scripts and pipelines, it returns an appropriate exit code upon termination -- see EXIT CODES below. +.PP The following options modify the behavior of \fIfetchmail\fR. It is seldom necessary to specify any of these once you have a working \fI.fetchmailrc\fR file set up. @@ -94,9 +96,9 @@ in sections on AUTHENTICATION and DAEMON MODE which follow. Displays the version information for your copy of .I fetchmail. No mail fetch is performed. -Instead, for each server specified, all option information +Instead, for each server specified, all the option information that would be computed if -.I fetchmail. +.I fetchmail were connecting to that server is displayed. Any non-printables in passwords or other string names are shown as backslashed C-like escape sequences. This option is useful for verifying that your @@ -191,6 +193,7 @@ with RFC 1731 GSSAPI authentication. .IP ETRN Use the ESMTP ETRN option. .RE +.P All these alternatives work in basically the same way (communicating with standard server daemons to fetch mail already delivered to a mailbox on the server) except ETRN. The ETRN mode allows you to ask a @@ -834,14 +837,14 @@ that defaults to [571, 550, 501] but can be set with the `antispam' option. This is the .I only circumstance under which fetchmail ever discards mail. -.P +.PP If .I fetchmail is fetching from an IMAP server, the antispam response will be detected and the message rejected immediately after the headers have been fetched, without reading the message body. Thus, you won't pay for downloading spam message bodies. -.P +.PP Mail that is spam-blocked triggers an RFC1892 bounce message informing the originator that we do not accept mail from it. @@ -857,8 +860,8 @@ Delete the message from the server. Send bounce-mail to the originator. .TP 5 553 (invalid sending domain) Delete the message from the server. Send bounce-mail to the originator. -.P -Other errors trigger an attempt +.PP +Other errors trigger bounce mail back to the originator. .SH THE RUN CONTROL FILE The preferred way to set up fetchmail is to write a @@ -1689,7 +1692,7 @@ that of the last host queried. Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>. This program is descended from and replaces .IR popclient , -by Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com>; the internals are quite different, +by Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com>; the internals have become quite different, but some of its interface design is directly traceable to that ancestral program. @@ -1744,7 +1747,7 @@ whichever of these is appropriate to wake it up. Enabling the `mimedecode' option (which defaults to off) may render invalid any PGP signatures attached to mail with quoted-printable headers. This bug will be fixed in a future version. -.P +.PP The RFC822 address parser used in multidrop mode chokes on some @-addresses that are technically legal but bizarre. Strange uses of quoting and embedded comments are likely to confuse it. @@ -1778,7 +1781,7 @@ http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail or do a WWW search for pages with `fetchmail' in their titles. .SH SEE ALSO -elm(1), mail(1), sendmail(8), popd(8), imapd(8) +mutt(1), elm(1), mail(1), sendmail(8), popd(8), imapd(8) .SH APPLICABLE STANDARDS .TP 5 SMTP/ESMTP: |