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\. */
\.
\. $Log: fetchmail.man,v $
+\. Revision 1.3 1996/06/27 19:22:33 esr
+\. Sent to ceharris.
+\.
\. Revision 1.2 1996/06/26 19:09:00 esr
\. This is what I sent Harris.
\.
@@ -371,6 +374,12 @@ popmail -d 900
will, therefore, poll the hosts described in your
.I ~/.poprc
file once every fifteen minutes.
+.PP
+Only one daemon process is permitted per user; in daemon mode,
+.I popclient
+makes a per-user lockfile to guarantee this. The option
+.B --quit
+will kill a running daemon process.
.SH THE POPRC FILE
The preferred way to set up popclient (and the only way if you want to
specify a password) is to write a .poprc file in your home directory.
@@ -520,6 +529,11 @@ There was a syntax error in the arguments to
Some kind of I/O woes occurred when writing to the local folder.
.IP 7
There was an error condition reported by the server (POP3 only).
+.IP 8
+Exclusion error. This means
+.I popclient
+either found another copy of itself already running, or failed in such
+a way that it isn't sure whether another copy is running.
.IP 9
Something totally undefined occured. This is usually caused by a bug within
.I popclient.