diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'fetchmail.man')
| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.man | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 6f803d43..a9b8a21e 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -221,6 +221,12 @@ news drop for a group of users. The port option permits you to specify a TCP/IP port to connect on. This option will seldom be necessary as all the supported protocols have well-established default port numbers. +.TP +.B \--principal <principal> +(Keyword: principal) +The principal option permits you to specify a service principal for +mutual authentication. This is applicable to POP3 or IMAP with Kerberos +authentication. .TP .B \-t, --timeout <seconds> (Keyword: timeout) @@ -1884,7 +1890,8 @@ on the server but not selected for retrieval.) .IP 2 An error was encountered when attempting to open a socket to retrieve mail. If you don't know what a socket is, don't worry about it -- -just treat this as an 'unrecoverable error'. +just treat this as an 'unrecoverable error'. This error can also be +because a protocol fetchmail wants to use is not listed in /etc/services. .IP 3 The user authentication step failed. This usually means that a bad user-id, password, or APOP id was specified. Or it may mean that you @@ -2054,6 +2061,8 @@ The UIDL code is generally flaky and tends to lose its state on errors and line drops (so that old messages are re-seen). If this happens to you, switch to IMAP4. .PP +The `principal' option only handles Kerberos IV, not V. +.PP Send comments, bug reports, gripes, and the like to the fetchmail-friends list <fetchmail-friends@ccil.org>. An HTML FAQ is available at the fetchmail home page; surf to |