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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.man | 15 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ fetchmail-6.3.27 (not yet released, if ever): * Convert most links from berlios.de to sourceforge.net. * Report error to stderr, and exit, if --idle is combined with multiple accounts. +* Point to --idle from GENERAL OPERATION to clarify --idle and multiple + mailboxes do not mix. In response to Jeremy Chadwick's trouble 2014-11-19, + fetchmail-users mailing list. # KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS (This section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 03f6233b..895e511a 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -145,9 +145,9 @@ the \fBfetchmailconf\fP program edits). Command-line options override \fI~/.fetchmailrc\fP 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 will be queried. If you do not specify any servers on the command line, each 'poll' entry in your \fI~/.fetchmailrc\fP file will be -queried. +queried, unless the idle option is used, which see. .PP To facilitate the use of \fBfetchmail\fP in scripts and pipelines, it returns an appropriate exit code upon termination -- see EXIT CODES @@ -319,11 +319,12 @@ also: \-\-idfile. (Keyword: idle, since before 6.0.0) .br Enable IDLE use (effective only with IMAP). Note that this works with -only one folder at a given time. While the idle rcfile keyword had been -supported for a long time, the \-\-idle command-line option was added in -version 6.3.3. IDLE use means that fetchmail tells the IMAP server to -send notice of new messages, so they can be retrieved sooner than would -be possible with regular polls. +only one account and one folder at a given time, other folders or +accounts will not be polled when idle is in effect! While the idle rcfile +keyword had been supported for a long time, the \-\-idle command-line +option was added in version 6.3.3. IDLE use means that fetchmail tells +the IMAP server to send notice of new messages, so they can be retrieved +sooner than would be possible with regular polls. .TP .B \-P <portnumber> | \-\-service <servicename> (Keyword: service) Since version 6.3.0. |