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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 664f13f3..6f803d43 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ to use socks, SSL, ssh, or need some special firewalling setup. The program will be looked up in $PATH and can optionally be passed the hostname and port as arguments using "%h" and "%p" respectively (note that the interpolation logic is rather promitive, and these token must -be bounded by whitespace or beginning of string or end of stribg). +be bounded by whitespace or beginning of string or end of string). Fetchmail will write to the plugin's stdin and read from the plugin's stdout. .TP @@ -899,6 +899,13 @@ the machine fetchmail itself is running on. If the invisible option is on, the Received header is suppressed and fetchmail tries to spoof the MTA it forwards to into thinking it came directly from the mailserver host. +.PP +The +.B --showdots +option (keyword: set showdots) forces fetchmail to show progress dots +even if the current tty is not stdout (for example logfiles). +Starting with fetchmail version 5.3.0, +progress dots are only shown on stdout by default. .SH RETRIEVAL FAILURE MODES The protocols \fIfetchmail\fR uses to talk to mailservers are next to |