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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index ed252e28..5648748c 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -288,7 +288,6 @@ Legal keywords are: username (or user) password (or pass) remotefolder (or remote) - mda smtphost (or smtp) keep flush @@ -476,6 +475,8 @@ SunOS) follow it (you can verify this by invoking \fIfetchmail -v\fR 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 +Another potential POP3 problem might be servers that insert messages +.PP The IMAP code uses the presence or absence of the server flag \eSeen to decide whether or not a message is new. Under Unix, it counts on your IMAP server to notice the BSD-style Status flags set by mail user @@ -491,12 +492,6 @@ the program send unencrypted passwords over the TCP/IP connection to the mail server. This creates a risk that name/password pairs might be snaffled with a packet sniffer or more sophisticated monitoring software. -.pp -Running more than one concurrent instance of -.I fetchmail -in POP2 or POP3 mode pointed at the same mailbox may cause messages to -be lost or remain unfetched. (This is a design problem of the POP2 and -POP3 protocols; IMAP is less vulnerable.) .PP The RPOP support is not yet well tested. .PP |