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@@ -34,9 +34,11 @@ fetchmail 6.3.0 (not yet released officially): * The MX and host alias lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode are obsolete, deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version without further notice. Their support for IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4) - is unspecified. Matthias Andree + is unspecified. (MA) * The monitor and interface options may also be removed from a future fetchmail - version as they are not sufficiently portable. + version as they are not sufficiently portable. (MA) +* POP2 is obsolete. Support for POP2 may be removed from a future fetchmail + version without further notice. (MA) # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR) diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 364c4b85..7c24d883 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ poll one or more systems at a specified interval. The .I fetchmail program can gather mail from servers supporting any of the common -mail-retrieval protocols: POP2, POP3, IMAP2bis, IMAP4, and IMAP4rev1. +mail-retrieval protocols: POP2 (legacy, to be removed from future +release), POP3, IMAP2bis, IMAP4, and IMAP4rev1. It can also use the ESMTP ETRN extension and ODMR. (The RFCs describing all these protocols are listed at the end of this manual page.) .PP @@ -228,7 +229,7 @@ may be one of the following: Tries IMAP, POP3, and POP2 (skipping any of these for which support has not been compiled in). .IP POP2 -Post Office Protocol 2 +Post Office Protocol 2 (legacy, to be removed from future release) .IP POP3 Post Office Protocol 3 .IP APOP @@ -693,14 +694,14 @@ KERBEROS\ 5); then it looks for methods that mask your password and MSN is only supported for POP3); and only if the server doesn't support any of those will it ship your password en clair. Other values may be used to force various authentication methods -(\fBssh\fR suppresses authentication). Any value other than -\&\fBpassword\fR, \fBcram-md5\fR, \fBntlm\fR, \fBmsn\fR or \fBotp\fR -suppresses fetchmail's normal inquiry for a password. Specify \fBssh\fR -when you are using an end-to-end secure connection such as an ssh -tunnel; specify \fBgssapi\fR or \fBkerberos_v4\fR if you are using a -protocol variant that employs GSSAPI or K4. Choosing KPOP protocol -automatically selects Kerberos authentication. This option does not -work with ETRN. +(\fBssh\fR suppresses authentication and is thus good for IMAP PREAUTH). +Any value other than \fBpassword\fR, \fBcram-md5\fR, \fBntlm\fR, +\&\fBmsn\fR or \fBotp\fR suppresses fetchmail's normal inquiry for a +password. Specify \fBssh\fR when you are using an end-to-end secure +connection such as an ssh tunnel; specify \fBgssapi\fR or +\&\fBkerberos_v4\fR if you are using a protocol variant that employs +GSSAPI or K4. Choosing KPOP protocol automatically selects Kerberos +authentication. This option does not work with ETRN. .SS Miscellaneous Options .TP .B \-f <pathname> | \-\-fetchmailrc <pathname> @@ -1865,7 +1866,7 @@ Legal protocol identifiers for use with the 'protocol' keyword are: .sp .nf auto (or AUTO) - pop2 (or POP2) + pop2 (or POP2) (legacy, to be removed from future release) pop3 (or POP3) sdps (or SDPS) imap (or IMAP) |