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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.man | 6 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ fetchmail 6.3.9 (not yet released): Fixes Debian Bug#421446 (Holger Leskien), Novell Bug #247233 (Jon Nelson). Thanks to Matthias Strauß for a configuration to reproduce the issue. +# DOCUMENTATION: +* The manual page no longer asserts that .fetchids were for exclusive POP3 use, + since it is planned to use it also with IMAP4. + # TRANSLATION UPDATES: * Polish (Jakub Bogusz) * Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki) diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index dbeedbcd..f729b046 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ else be /dev/null. .TP .B \-i <pathname> | \-\-idfile <pathname> (Keyword: idfile) -Specify an alternate name for the .fetchids file used to save POP3 +Specify an alternate name for the .fetchids file used to save message UIDs. NOTE: since fetchmail 6.3.0, write access to the directory containing the idfile is required, as fetchmail writes a temporary file and renames it into the place of the real idfile only if the temporary @@ -2560,9 +2560,7 @@ that of the last host queried. default run control file .TP 5 ~/.fetchids -default location of file associating hosts with last message IDs seen -(used only with newer RFC1939-compliant POP3 servers supporting the -UIDL command). +default location of file recording last message UIDs seen per host. .TP 5 ~/.fetchmail.pid lock file to help prevent concurrent runs (non-root mode). |