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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.man | 11 |
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -59,7 +59,17 @@ at version 3.0b6 or later, do this (cd ~; mv ~/.poprc ~/.fetchmailrc) -in order to migrate. +in order to migrate. Be aware that some of popclient's unnecessary +options have been removed (see the NOTES file for explanation). You +can't deliver to a local mail file anymore, and using an MDA for delivery +is discouraged. If you throw those options away, fetchmail will now forward +your mail into your system's normal Internet-mail delivery path. + +If you use an MDA with popclient or an older version of fetchmail that +requires %s in the MDA string in order to substitute in a local +delivery address, remove it. One consequences of the internal changes +to support multi-drop mailboxes is that local delivery addresses will +be appended to the end of the command in the obvious way. 5. TEST @@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ features -- lists and multidrop mailboxes. See the man page for details (and note the caveat in the BUGS AND KNOWN PROBLEMS section). +* If you use an MDA, the internal changes to support multi-drop mailboxes + require that you *remove* the %s at the end of your MDA string. Local + delivery addresses will be appended to the end of the command in the + obvious way. + * The first message from a query now includes the number of old messages when this can be determined (that is not under POP2). diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 0cfb5af0..c7017595 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -70,11 +70,10 @@ You can force mail to be passed to an MDA directly (rather than forwarded to port 25) with the -mda or -m option (this can be useful if you don't want to run sendmail as an SMTP listener for security or other reasons). -Some possible MDAs are "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem %s", -"/usr/lib/sendmail -oem %s", -"/usr/bin/formail", and "/usr/bin/deliver %s" (if the MDA command contains -%s, that escape will be expanded into your username on the client -machine). If \fIfetchmail\fR is running as root, it sets its userid to +Some possible MDAs are "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem", +"/usr/lib/sendmail -oem", "/usr/bin/formail", and "/usr/bin/deliver". +Local delivery addresses will be appended to the MDA command. +If \fIfetchmail\fR is running as root, it sets its userid to that of the target user while delivering mail through an MDA. .TP .B \-F, --flush @@ -522,7 +521,7 @@ string in double quotes. Thus: .nf server mail.provider.net with proto pop3: user jsmith there has password "u can't krak this" - is jws here and wants mda "/bin/mail %s" + is jws here and wants mda "/bin/mail" .fi You may have an initial server description headed by the keyword |