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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index b1f2d265..92c338c1 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -310,12 +310,12 @@ The timeout option allows you to set a server-nonresponse timeout in seconds. If a mailserver does not send a greeting message or respond to commands for the given number of seconds, \fIfetchmail\fR will hang up on it. Without such a timeout -\fIfetchmail\fR might hang up indefinitely trying to fetch mail from a +\fIfetchmail\fR might hang indefinitely trying to fetch mail from a down host. This would be particularly annoying for a \fIfetchmail\fR -running in background. There is a default timeout which fetchmail\~\-V +running in the background. There is a default timeout which fetchmail\~\-V will report. If a given connection receives too many timeouts in -succession, fetchmail will consider it wedged and stop retrying, -the calling user will be notified by email if this happens. +succession, fetchmail will consider it wedged and stop retrying. +The calling user will be notified by email if this happens. .TP .B \-\-plugin <command> (Keyword: plugin) The plugin option allows you to use an external |