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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 5037924c..afe2240e 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -431,6 +431,7 @@ Legal server options are: port authenticate (or auth) timeout + aka Legal user options are @@ -451,7 +452,15 @@ Legal user options are norewrite .PP All options correspond to the obvious command-line arguments except -three: `is', `to', and `password' +four: `aka', `is', `to', and `password'. +.PP +The `aka' option is for use with multidrop mailboxes. It allows you +to pre-declare a list of DNS aliases for a server. This is an +optimization hack that allows you to trade space for speed. When +.IR fetchmail , +while processing a multidrop mailbox, grovels through message headers +looking for names of the mailserver, pre-declaring common ones can +save it from having to do DNS lookups. .PP The `is' or `to' keywords associate the following local (client) name(s) (or server-name to client-name mappings separated by =) with |