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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 97ede73d..64d22c71 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -206,9 +206,20 @@ news drop for a group of users. .TP .B \-P, --port (Keyword: port) -The option permits you to specify a TCP/IP port to connect on. +The port option permits you to specify a TCP/IP port to connect on. This option will seldom be necessary as all the supported protocols have well-established default port numbers. +.TP +.B \-t, --timeout +(Keyword: timeout) +The 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 \fIfetchmail\fR +running in background. There is a default timeout which fetchmail -V +will report. .TP .B \-r folder, --folder folder (Keyword: folder[s]) @@ -614,19 +625,6 @@ The quit option may also be mixed with other command-line options; its effect is to kill any running daemon before doing what the other options specify in combination with the rc file. .PP -The -.B -t -or -.B --timeout -option (keyword: timeout) 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 \fIfetchmail\fR -running in background. There is a default timeout which fetchmail -V -will report. -.PP The .B -L or |