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whichever of these is appropriate to wake it up.
.SH BUGS AND KNOWN PROBLEMS
+The mda and plugin options interact badly. In order to collect error
+status from the MDA, fetchmail has to change its normal signal
+handling so that dead plugin processes don't get reaped until the end
+of the poll cycle. This can cause resource starvation if too many
+zombies accumulate. So either don't deliver to a MDA using plugins or
+risk being overrun by an army of undead.
+.PP
The RFC822 address parser used in multidrop mode chokes on some
@-addresses that are technically legal but bizarre. Strange uses of
quoting and embedded comments are likely to confuse it.