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-rw-r--r--fetchmail.man4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 78ae3f0c..d2f3f31c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ OTHER CHANGES:
* Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
Matthias Andree
+* Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
+ Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index af0dfc53..b5164728 100644
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -254,7 +254,9 @@ of `newness' of messages (UIDL stands for ``unique ID listing'' and is
described in RFC1939). Use with `keep' to use a mailbox as a baby
news drop for a group of users. The fact that seen messages are skipped
is logged, unless error logging is done through syslog while running in
-daemon mode.
+daemon mode. Note that fetchmail may automatically enable this option
+depending on upstream server capabilities. Note also that this option
+may be removed and forced enabled in a future fetchmail version.
.TP
.B \-P <portnumber> | \-\-port <portnumber>