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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 021e5f9c..1a0943ca 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ selects Kerberos authentication. This option does not work with ETRN. .TP .B \-f <pathname>, --fetchmailrc <pathname> Specify a non-default name for the -.I .fetchmailrc +.I ~/.fetchmailrc run control file. The pathname argument must be either "-" (a single dash, meaning to read the configuration from standard input) or a filename. Unless the --version option is also on, a named file @@ -702,16 +702,16 @@ in daemon mode or with scripts. If you do not specify a password, and .I fetchmail cannot extract one from your -.I .fetchmailrc +.I ~/.fetchmailrc file, it will look for a -.I .netrc +.I ~/.netrc file in your home directory before requesting one interactively; if an entry matching the mailserver is found in that file, the password will be used. Fetchmail first looks for a match on poll name; if it finds none, it checks for a match on via name. See the .IR ftp (1) man page for details of the syntax of the -.I .netrc +.I ~/.netrc file. (This feature may allow you to avoid duplicating password information in more than one file.) .PP @@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ RFC1460 introduced APOP authentication. In this variant of POP3, you register an APOP password on your server host (the program to do this with on the server is probably called \fIpopauth\fR(8)). You put the same password in your -.I .fetchmailrc +.I ~/.fetchmailrc file. Each time .I fetchmail logs in, it sends a cryptographically secure hash of your password and @@ -911,7 +911,7 @@ The option turns off use of .IR syslog (3), assuming it's turned on in the -.I .fetchmailrc +.I ~/.fetchmailrc file, or that the .B -L or @@ -935,14 +935,14 @@ next poll cycle. (The IMAP logic doesn't delete messages until they're delivered, so this problem does not arise.) .PP If you touch or change the -.I .fetchmailrc +.I ~/.fetchmailrc file while fetchmail is running in daemon mode, this will be detected at the beginning of the next poll cycle. When a changed -.I .fetchmailrc +.I ~/.fetchmailrc is detected, fetchmail rereads it and restarts from scratch (using exec(2); no state information is retained in the new instance). Note also that if you break the -.I .fetchmailrc +.I ~/.fetchmailrc file's syntax, the new instance will softly and silently vanish away on startup. @@ -2154,7 +2154,7 @@ Fetchmail's method of sending bouncemail and spam bounces requires that port 25 of localhost be available for sending mail via SMTP. .PP If you modify a -.I .fetchmailrc +.I ~/.fetchmailrc while a background instance is running and break the syntax, the background instance will die silently. Unfortunately, it can't die noisily because we don't yet know whether syslog should be enabled. |