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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 20836444..065f596d 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -397,6 +397,18 @@ Legal protocol identifiers are apop (or APOP) rpop (or RPOP) .PP +You can also use the `noise' keywords \fBand\fR, \fBwith\fR, +\fBhas\fR, \fBwants\fR, and \fBoptions\fR anywhere in an entry to make +it resemble English. They're ignored, but but can make entries much +easier to read at a glance. The punctuation characters ':', ';' and +',' are also ignored. +.PP +The words \fBhere\fR and \fBthere\fR also have useful English-like +significance. Normally `\fBuser eric is esr\fR' would mean that +mail for the remote user \fBeric\fR is to be delivered to \fBesr\fR, +but you can make this clearer by saying `\fBuser eric there is esr here\fR', +or reverse it by saying `\fBuser esr here is eric there\fR' +.PP Basic format is: .nf @@ -422,13 +434,26 @@ Multiple servers may be listed: server other.provider.net proto pop2 user John.Smith pass My^Hat .fi +Here's a version of those two with more whitespace and some noise words: + +.nf + server pop.provider.net proto pop3 + user jsmith, with password secret1, is jsmith here; + server other.provider.net proto pop2: + user John.Smith with password My^Hat, is John.Smith here; +.fi + +This version is much easier to read and doesn't cost significantly +more (parsing is done only once, at startup time). + .PP If you need to include whitespace in a parameter string, enclose the string in double quotes. Thus: .nf server mail.provider.net proto pop3 - user jsmith pass "u can't krak this" mda "/bin/mail %s" + user jsmith has password "u can't krak this" + and wants mda "/bin/mail %s" .fi You may have an initial server description headed by the keyword @@ -442,7 +467,7 @@ by individual server descriptions. So, you could write: server pop.provider.net pass secret1 server mail.provider.net - user jjsmith pass secret2 + user jjsmith has password secret2 .fi It's possible to specify more than one user per server (this is only @@ -455,8 +480,8 @@ invoking user is used .) Here's a contrived example: .nf server pop.provider.net proto pop3 port 3111 pass gumshoe - user jsmith pass secret1 is smith - user jones pass secret2 is jjones + user jsmith with pass secret1 is smith here + user jones with pass secret2 is jjones here .fi This says that the user invoking \fIfetchmail\fR has the same username @@ -552,6 +577,9 @@ software. .PP The RPOP support is not yet well tested. .PP +The configuration file lexer handles punctuation adjacent to keywords poorly. +Flex can be very mysterious at times. +.PP Send comments, bug reports, gripes, and the like to Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>. .SH NOTES |