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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index e128dc8a..fae705aa 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -792,9 +792,10 @@ by individual server descriptions. So, you could write: It's possible to specify more than one user per server (this is only likely to be useful when running fetchmail in daemon mode as root). The `user' keyword leads off a user description, and every user -description except optionally the first one must include it. (If the -first description lacks the `user' keyword, the name of the -invoking user is used.) Here's a contrived example: +description except optionally the first one must include it. If the +first description lacks the `user' keyword, the name of the invoking +user is used (in a future version, the option to omit the `user' +keyword may be removed). Here's a contrived example: .nf poll pop.provider.net proto pop3 port 3111 @@ -804,17 +805,18 @@ invoking user is used.) Here's a contrived example: .fi This says that the user invoking \fIfetchmail\fR has the same username -on pop.provider.net, and password `gumshoe' there. -It also associates the local username `smith' with the pop.provider.net -username `jsmith' and the local username `jjones' with the pop.provider.net -username `jones'. +on pop.provider.net, and password `gumshoe' there. It also associates +the local username `smith' with the pop.provider.net username `jsmith' +and the local username `jjones' with the pop.provider.net username +`jones'. .PP This example is contrived because, in practice, you are very unlikely to be specifying multiple users per server unless running it as root (thus the `pass gumshoe' would try to fetch root's mail on -pop-provider.net, which is probably not what you want). -In any case, we strongly recommend always having an explicit -\&`user' clause when specifying multiple users per mailserver. +pop-provider.net, which is probably not what you want). In any case, +we strongly recommend always having an explicit \&`user' clause when +specifying multiple users per mailserver. In a future version, the +option not to explicitly declare the username may be removed. .PP Here's what a simple retrieval configuration for a multi-drop mailbox looks like: @@ -999,8 +1001,14 @@ use the removed `localfolder' option or `limit' (which now takes a maximum byte size rather than a line count), this will often work. (The new run control file syntax also has to be a little stricter about the order of options than the old, in order to support multiple -user desriptions per server; thus you may have to rearrange things a +user descriptions per server; thus you may have to rearrange things a bit.) +.PP +Run control files in the .poprc format will trigger a warning. To +eliminate this warning, add the `username' keyword before your first user +entry per server (it is already required before second and subsequent +user entries per server. In some future version the `username' keyword +will be required. .SH FILES .TP 5 @@ -1073,3 +1081,4 @@ RFC 1730, RFC 1731, RFC 1732, RFC 2060 .TP 5 ETRN: RFC 1985 + |