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-rw-r--r--fetchmail.man6
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cfaaeea7..9b4d686a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -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).