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-rw-r--r--fetchmail.man5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 06f2b414..ae0882de 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,8 +10,11 @@
ssh for a secure passwordless connection. Removed the FAQ entry
on popclient.
* Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net> sent a fix for IPv6.
-* Fix Red Hat bug 9982: fetchmail now automatically pups up an edit panel
+* Fix Red Hat bug 9982: fetchmailconf now automatically pups up an edit panel
whenever a new user or site is created.
+* Deal gracefully with the possibility that we might be running as a
+ subprocess with stdin not attached to a tty, and thus unable to query
+ for a password.
fetchmail-5.3.0 (Tue Feb 22 08:53:31 PST 2000), 18618 lines:
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index 2bf214a3..0188a0de 100644
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -1819,7 +1819,10 @@ mail. If you don't know what a socket is, don't worry about it --
just treat this as an 'unrecoverable error'.
.IP 3
The user authentication step failed. This usually means that a bad
-user-id, password, or APOP id was specified.
+user-id, password, or APOP id was specified. Or it may mean that you
+tried to run fetchmail under circumstances where it did not have
+standard input attached to a terminal and could not prompt for a
+missing password.
.IP 4
Some sort of fatal protocol error was detected.
.IP 5