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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.man | 18 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.) * The maintainer may migrate fetchmail to C++ with STL or C#, and impose further requirements (dependencies), such as Boost or other class libraries. * The softbounce option default will change to "false" in the next release. +* The --bsmtp - mode of operation may be removed in a future release. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 245d40b5..d9d2b1ed 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -694,12 +694,18 @@ port 25 will (in accordance with RFC 2033) not be accepted. .br Append fetched mail to a BSMTP file. This simply contains the SMTP commands that would normally be generated by fetchmail when passing -mail to an SMTP listener daemon. An argument of '\-' causes the mail -to be written to standard output. Note that fetchmail's -reconstruction of MAIL FROM and RCPT TO lines is not guaranteed -correct; the caveats discussed under THE USE AND ABUSE OF MULTIDROP -MAILBOXES below apply. This mode has precedence before \-\-mda and -SMTP/LMTP. +mail to an SMTP listener daemon. + +An argument of '\-' causes the SMTP batch to be written to standard +output, which is of limited use: this only makes sense for debugging, +because fetchmail's regular output is interspersed on the same channel, +so this isn't suitable for mail delivery. This special mode may be +removed in a later release. + +Note that fetchmail's reconstruction of MAIL FROM and RCPT TO lines is +not guaranteed correct; the caveats discussed under THE USE AND ABUSE OF +MULTIDROP MAILBOXES below apply. This mode has precedence before +\-\-mda and SMTP/LMTP. .TP .B \-\-bad\-header {reject|accept} (Keyword: bad\-header; since v6.3.15) |