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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 64892b26..cfd429dc 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -131,8 +131,6 @@ any successful attempt. .I proto may be one of the following: .RS -.IP IMAP -IMAP2bis, a compatible subset of IMAP4. .IP POP2 Post Office Protocol 2 .IP POP3 @@ -143,9 +141,18 @@ Use POP3 with MD5 authentication. Use POP3 with RPOP authentication. .IP KPOP Use POP3 with Kerberos authentication on port 1109. +.IP IMAP +IMAP2bis, IMAP4, or IMAP4rev1 (\fIfetchmail\fR autodetects their capabilities). .IP ETRN Use the ESMTP ETRN option. .RE +All these alternatives work in basically the same way (communicating +with server daemons to fetch mail already delivered to a mailbox on +the server) except ETRN. The ETRN mode allows you to ask an RFC-1985 +complient ESMTP server (such as BSD sendmail at release 8.8.0 or +higher) to immediately open an sender-SMTP connection to your your +client machine and begin forwarding any items addressed to your client +machine in the server's queue of undelivered mail. .TP .B \-P, --port The option permits you to specify a TCP/IP port to connect on. |