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| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.man | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | options.c | 1 |
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 7e78b80f..1373840b 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -319,6 +319,12 @@ The .B \-N or --nodetach option suppresses detachment of the daemon process from its control terminal. This is primarily useful for debugging. +.PP +Note that running fetchmail in daemon mode forces the --fetchall option on. +This is a robustness feature. It means that if a message is fetched +(and thus marked seen by the mailserver) but not delivered locally +due to some transient error, it will be re-fetched during the next +poll cycle. .SH RETRIEVAL FAILURE MODES The protocols \fIfetchmail\fR uses to talk to mailservers are next to bulletproof. In normal operation forwarding to port 25, no message is @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ struct query *ctl; /* option record to be initialized */ case 'd': case LA_DAEMON: poll_interval = atoi(optarg); + ctl->fetchall = TRUE; break; case 'N': case LA_NODETACH: |