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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 487eb7b9..c2f618af 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -612,8 +612,16 @@ Running more than one concurrent instance of on the same mailbox may cause messages to be lost or remain unfetched. (This is a design problem of the POP2, POP3 and IMAP2bis protocols.) .PP -The RPOP support, and the UIDL support for RFC1725-compliant POP servers -without LAST, are not yet well tested. +If, using POP3, you find that messages you've already read on the +server are being fetched, blame RFC1725. That late version pf the +POP3 protocol specification ill-advisedly removed the LAST command, and +some servers (including the one distributed with at least some +versions of SunOS) follow it (you can verify this by invoking +.I fetchmail -v +and watching the response to LAST early in the query). The fix is to +install an older POP3 server with LAST or switch to an IMAP server. +.PP +The RPOP support is not yet well tested. .PP Send comments, bug reports, gripes, and the like to Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>. |