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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 2f956996..728a4841 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ option \fBuser\fR. .PP If your IMAP daemon returns the PREAUTH response in its greeting line, fetchmail will notice this and skip the normal authentication step. -This could be useful, e.g. if you start imapd explicitly using ssh. +This can be useful, e.g. if you start imapd explicitly using ssh. In this case you can declare the authentication value `ssh' on that site entry to stop \fI.fetchmail\fR from asking you for a password when it starts up. @@ -1633,6 +1633,12 @@ person referred by the To: address has already received the original copy of the mail). .SH CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES +Note that although there are password declarations in a good many +of the examples below, this is mainly for illustrative purposes. +We recommend stashing account/password pairs in your $HOME/.netrc +file, where they can be used not just by fetchmail but by ftp(1) and +other programs. + Basic format is: .nf @@ -1756,8 +1762,8 @@ imapd via ssh. Note that in this setup, IMAP authentication can be skipped. .nf -poll mailhost.net with proto imap and auth ssh: - plugin "ssh %h /usr/sbin/imapd"; +poll mailhost.net with proto imap: + plugin "ssh %h /usr/sbin/imapd" auth ssh; user esr is esr here .fi @@ -2094,7 +2100,7 @@ http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail or do a WWW search for pages with `fetchmail' in their titles. .SH SEE ALSO -mutt(1), elm(1), mail(1), sendmail(8), popd(8), imapd(8) +mutt(1), elm(1), mail(1), sendmail(8), popd(8), imapd(8), netrc(5) .SH APPLICABLE STANDARDS .TP 5 SMTP/ESMTP: |