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@@ -1791,6 +1791,13 @@ The RFC822 address parser used in multidrop mode chokes on some
@-addresses that are technically legal but bizarre. Strange uses of
quoting and embedded comments are likely to confuse it.
.PP
+Two users have reported that daemon-mode fetchmails leak memory.
+This may be associated with use of UIDL, or it may mean your TCP/IP
+layer is failing to garbage-collect closed sockets generated on
+protocol errors properly; most installations do not have this
+problem. If you observe it, please report a bug. The workaround is
+to do a fetchmail -q and restart occasionally.
+.PP
In a message with multiple envelope headers, only the last one
processed will be visible to fetchmail. To get around this, use a
mailserver-side filter that consolidates the contents of all envelope