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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index cfd429dc..788b3ebb 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -18,10 +18,9 @@ poll one or more systems at a specified interval. The .I fetchmail program can gather mail from servers supporting any of the common -mail-retrieval protocols: POP2 (as specified in RFC 937), POP3 (RFC -1939), IMAP2bis (as implemented by the 4.4BSD imapd program), and -IMAP4 (as specified by RFC 1730). It can use (but does not require) -the LAST facility removed from later POP3 versions. +mail-retrieval protocols: POP2, POP3, IMAP2bis, and IMAP4. It can +also use the ESMTP ETRN extension. (The RFCs describing all these +protocols are listed below.) .PP While .I fetchmail @@ -147,9 +146,9 @@ IMAP2bis, IMAP4, or IMAP4rev1 (\fIfetchmail\fR autodetects their capabilities). Use the ESMTP ETRN option. .RE All these alternatives work in basically the same way (communicating -with server daemons to fetch mail already delivered to a mailbox on -the server) except ETRN. The ETRN mode allows you to ask an RFC-1985 -complient ESMTP server (such as BSD sendmail at release 8.8.0 or +with standard server daemons to fetch mail already delivered to a +mailbox on the server) except ETRN. The ETRN mode allows you to ask a +compliant ESMTP server (such as BSD sendmail at release 8.8.0 or higher) to immediately open an sender-SMTP connection to your your client machine and begin forwarding any items addressed to your client machine in the server's queue of undelivered mail. @@ -1036,7 +1035,7 @@ elm(1), mail(1), sendmail(8), popd(8), imapd(8) .SH APPLICABLE STANDARDS .TP 5 SMTP/ESMTP: -RFC 821, RFC 1869, RFC 1652, RFC 1870 +RFC 821, RFC 1869, RFC 1652, RFC 1870, RFC 1985 .TP 5 mail: RFC 822 |