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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index bc56b958..d2b51197 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -38,7 +38,40 @@ While \fBfetchmail\fP is primarily intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections), it may also be useful as a message transfer agent for sites which refuse for security reasons to permit (sender-initiated) SMTP transactions with sendmail. + +.SS SUPPORT, TROUBLESHOOTING +.PP +For troubleshooting, tracing and debugging, you need to increase +fetchmail's verbosity to actually see what happens. To do that, please +run \fBboth of the two following commands, +adding all of the options you'd normally use.\fP + +.IP +.nf +env LC_ALL=C fetchmail -V -v --nodetach --nosyslog +.fi +.IP +(This command line prints in English how fetchmail understands your +configuration.) + +.IP +.nf +env LC_ALL=C fetchmail -vvv --nodetach --nosyslog +.fi +.IP +(This command line actually runs fetchmail with verbose English output.) .PP +Also see +.URL "http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3" "item #G3 in fetchmail's FAQ" +.PP +You can omit the LC_ALL=C part above if you want output in the local +language (if supported). However if you are posting to mailing lists, +please leave it in. The maintainers do not necessarily understand your +language, please use English. + + + +.SS CONCEPTS If \fBfetchmail\fP is used with a POP or an IMAP server (but not with ETRN or ODMR), it has two fundamental modes of operation for each user account from which it retrieves mail: \fIsingledrop\fP- and |