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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 8f8d0389..004857f8 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -693,14 +693,20 @@ monitoring software. Retrieval and forwarding from multi-drop server mailboxes is at most as reliable as your mail server host's DNS service. Each host address part in each message of a multi-drop mailbox is looked up through DNS -to see if it's an alias of the mail server. If it is, but the lookup -fails due to network congestion or a crashed server, forwarding will -not get done correctly. This check \fIwill\fR catch equivalences -created by MX records. +to see if it's an alias of the mail server (the method \fIwill\fR +catch equivalences created by MX records). If it is an alias of the +server, but the lookup fails due to network congestion or a crashed +server, forwarding will not get done correctly. .PP The multi-drop mailbox code was hard to test thoroughly and may have obscure failure modes, especially in the presence of DNS flakiness. .PP +The configuration file grammar is ugly and tricky. This is an +unfortunate result of trying to stay compatible with the old popclient +syntax. The way it is most likely to bite is if you try to declare +a `defaults' entry with no user options. This should work, but does +not. To work around this problem, add a redundant `user' declaration. +.PP Under Linux, if fetchmail is run in daemon mode with the network inaccessible, each poll leaves a socket allocated but in CLOSE state (this is visible in netstat(1)'s output). For some reason, these |