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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 00eb9633..08d4f399 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ or option allows you to redirect status messages emitted while in daemon mode into a specified logfile (follow the option with the logfile name). This is primarily useful for debugging configurations. -.SH THE FETCHRC FILE +.SH THE RUN CONTROL FILE The preferred way to set up fetchmail (and the only way if you want to specify a password) is to write a .fetchrc file in your home directory. To protect the security of your passwords, your ~/.fetchrc may not have @@ -404,12 +404,27 @@ Legal keywords are: flush fetchall rewrite + explicit nokeep noflush nofetchall norewrite + noexplicit port .PP +All these correspond to the obvuious command-line arguments except +two: \fBpassword\fR and \fBexplicit\fR. +.PP +The \fBpassword\fR option requires a string argument, which is the password +to be used with the entry's server. +.PP +The \fBexplicit\fR option tells +.I fetchmail +not to query this host unless it is explicitly named on the command +line. A host entry with this flag will be skipped when +.I fetchmail +called with no arguments steps through all hosts in the run control file. +.PP Legal protocol identifiers are auto (or AUTO) |