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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index ec26b172..925ca793 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ The ISP can make the 'mbox\-userstr\-' prefix anything they choose but a string matching the user host name is likely. By using the option 'envelope Delivered\-To:' you can make fetchmail reliably identify the original envelope recipient, but you have to strip the -'mbox\-userstr\-' prefix to deliver to the correct user. +\&'mbox\-userstr\-' prefix to deliver to the correct user. This is what this option is for. .TP .B \-\-configdump @@ -1339,11 +1339,11 @@ quoted strings will also contain line feed characters if they run across two or more lines, unless you use a backslash to join lines (see below). An unquoted string is any whitespace-delimited token that is neither numeric, string quoted nor contains the special characters ',', ';', -':', or '='. +\&':', or '='. .PP Any amount of whitespace separates tokens in server entries, but is otherwise ignored. You may use backslash escape sequences (\en for LF, -\&\et for HT, \&\eb for BS, \er for CR, \e\fInnn\fP for decimal (where +\&\et for HT, \eb for BS, \er for CR, \e\fInnn\fP for decimal (where nnn cannot start with a 0), \e0\fIooo\fP for octal, and \ex\fIhh\fP for hex) to embed non-printable characters or string delimiters in strings. In quoted strings, a backslash at the very end of a line will cause the @@ -1386,7 +1386,7 @@ Here are the legal options. Keyword suffixes enclosed in square brackets are optional. Those corresponding to short command-line options are followed by '\-' and the appropriate option letter. If option is only relevant to a single mode of operation, it is noted as -'s' or 'm' for singledrop- or multidrop-mode, respectively. +\&'s' or 'm' for singledrop- or multidrop-mode, respectively. Here are the legal global options: @@ -1452,7 +1452,7 @@ T} local[domains] \& m T{ Specify domain(s) to be regarded as local T} -port \& T{ +port \& \& T{ Specify TCP/IP service port (obsolete, use 'service' instead). T} service \-P \& T{ @@ -1489,7 +1489,7 @@ T} plugout \& \& T{ Specify command through which to make listener connections. T} -dns \& m T{ +dns \& m T{ Enable DNS lookup for multidrop (default) T} no dns \& m T{ @@ -1519,7 +1519,7 @@ T} esmtpname \& \& T{ Set name for RFC2554 authentication to the ESMTP server. T} -esmtppassword \& \& T{ +esmtppassword \& \& T{ Set password for RFC2554 authentication to the ESMTP server. T} .TE @@ -1788,7 +1788,7 @@ name matches a declared local domain, that address is passed through to the listener or MDA unaltered (local-name mappings are \fInot\fR applied). .PP -If you are using 'localdomains', you may also need to specify \&'no +If you are using 'localdomains', you may also need to specify 'no envelope', which disables \fIfetchmail\fR's normal attempt to deduce an envelope address from the Received line or X-Envelope-To header or whatever header has been previously set by 'envelope'. If you set 'no @@ -1923,7 +1923,7 @@ There are some global option statements: 'set logfile' followed by a string sets the same global specified by \-\-logfile. A command-line \-\-logfile option will override this. Note that \-\-logfile is only effective if fetchmail detaches itself from the terminal. Also, -'set daemon' sets the poll interval as \-\-daemon does. This can be +\&'set daemon' sets the poll interval as \-\-daemon does. This can be overridden by a command-line \-\-daemon option; in particular \-\-daemon\~0 can be used to force foreground operation. The 'set postmaster' statement sets the address to which multidrop mail defaults if there are @@ -2182,13 +2182,13 @@ a 'by/for' clause that gives the envelope addressee into its Received header. But this doesn't work reliably for other MTAs, nor if there is more than one recipient. By default, \fIfetchmail\fR looks for envelope addresses in these lines; you can restore this default with -\&\-E "Received" or \&'envelope Received'. +\&\-E "Received" or 'envelope Received'. .PP .B As a better alternative, some SMTP listeners and/or mail servers insert a header in each message containing a copy of the envelope addresses. This header (when it exists) is often 'X\-Original\-To', 'Delivered\-To' or -'X\-Envelope\-To'. Fetchmail's assumption about this can be changed with +\&'X\-Envelope\-To'. Fetchmail's assumption about this can be changed with the \-E or 'envelope' option. Note that writing an envelope header of this kind exposes the names of recipients (including blind-copy recipients) to all receivers of the messages, so the upstream must store @@ -2243,8 +2243,8 @@ client side of a \fIfetchmail\fR collection. Suppose your name is list called (say) "fetchmail-friends", and you want to keep the alias list on your client machine. .PP -On your server, you can alias \&'fetchmail\-friends' to 'esr'; then, in -your \fI.fetchmailrc\fR, declare \&'to esr fetchmail\-friends here'. +On your server, you can alias 'fetchmail\-friends' to 'esr'; then, in +your \fI.fetchmailrc\fR, declare 'to esr fetchmail\-friends here'. Then, when mail including 'fetchmail\-friends' as a local address gets fetched, the list name will be appended to the list of recipients your SMTP listener sees. Therefore it will undergo alias |