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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 3896971c..4c3ce4af 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -1791,6 +1791,13 @@ The RFC822 address parser used in multidrop mode chokes on some @-addresses that are technically legal but bizarre. Strange uses of quoting and embedded comments are likely to confuse it. .PP +Two users have reported that daemon-mode fetchmails leak memory. +This may be associated with use of UIDL, or it may mean your TCP/IP +layer is failing to garbage-collect closed sockets generated on +protocol errors properly; most installations do not have this +problem. If you observe it, please report a bug. The workaround is +to do a fetchmail -q and restart occasionally. +.PP In a message with multiple envelope headers, only the last one processed will be visible to fetchmail. To get around this, use a mailserver-side filter that consolidates the contents of all envelope |