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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 2bf214a3..0188a0de 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -1819,7 +1819,10 @@ mail. If you don't know what a socket is, don't worry about it -- just treat this as an 'unrecoverable error'. .IP 3 The user authentication step failed. This usually means that a bad -user-id, password, or APOP id was specified. +user-id, password, or APOP id was specified. Or it may mean that you +tried to run fetchmail under circumstances where it did not have +standard input attached to a terminal and could not prompt for a +missing password. .IP 4 Some sort of fatal protocol error was detected. .IP 5 |