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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 76884b7b..f6dd6340 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -137,9 +137,13 @@ Use POP3 with MD5 authentication. Use POP3 with trusted-host-based authentication (like rlogin/rsh). .I popclient must be installed as a setuid root program to use RPOP. -.B \--proto. .RE .TP +.B \-P, --port +The option permits you to specify a TCP/IP port to connect on. +This will seldom be necessary as all the supported protocols have +well-established default port numbers. +.TP .B \-o folder, --local folder Causes retrieved messages to be appended to file named by the folder argument. When neither @@ -205,22 +209,6 @@ that would be computed if .I popclient. were connecting to that server is displayed. .TP -.PP -.SH PROTOCOL SELECTION -The selection of the correct Post Office Protocol (POP2 or POP3) depends upon -the configuration of the mailserver from which you retrieve your mail. The -system adminstrator who installed -.I popclient -on your system should have chosen an appropriate default protocol for your -mailserver. If you get the message 'Connection refused' when using the -default protocol, try specifying -.B \-2 -or -.B \-3 -to select a different protocol. If the 'Connection refused' message persists -regardless of the protocol selected, it is likely that your mailserver is not -running a POP compliant mail service. -.PP .SH USER AUTHENTICATION User authentication in .I popclient @@ -410,6 +398,7 @@ Legal keywords are: noflush nofetchall norewrite + port .PP Legal protocol identifiers are @@ -451,6 +440,7 @@ one server definition. .nf server pop.provider.net \e proto pop3 \e + port 3111 \e user jsmith \e pass secret1 \e localfolder ~/mbox @@ -563,9 +553,10 @@ default location of file associating hosts with last message IDs seen (used only with newer RFC1725-compliant servers supporting the UIDL command). .SH BUGS .PP -The --smtphost option doesn't work with POP2. This isn't a protocol problem, -it's because the developers couldn't find a POP2 server to test the -necessary code reorganization with. +When using POP2, the --smtphost option doesn't work, and mail headers +are not rewritten to enable replies as described under --norewrite. +This isn't a protocol problem, it's because the developer couldn't +find a POP2 server to test the necessary code reorganization with. .PP The --remotefolder option doesn't work with POP3. .PP @@ -577,11 +568,11 @@ No RPOP support yet. Send comments, bug reports, gripes, and the like to Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>. .SH NOTE -The -p (--password) option of previous versions has been removed -- it +The --password option of previous versions has been removed -- it encouraged people to expose passwords in scripts. Passwords -must now be specified either manually or in your +must now be specified either interactively or in your .I ~/.poprc -file. +file. The short-form -p option now specifies the protocol to use. .SH SEE ALSO mail(1), binmail(1), sendmail(8), popd(8), RFC 937, RFC 1081, RFC 1082, RFC 1225, RFC 1460, RFC 1725. |