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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 863d242d..f8e3236f 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -284,6 +284,17 @@ will kill a running daemon process. Otherwise, calling fetchmail with a daemon in the background sends a wakeup signal to the daemon, forcing it to poll mailservers immediately. .PP +The +.B -t +or +.B --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 down host. This would be particularly +annoying for a server running in background. +.PP The .B -L or @@ -368,6 +379,7 @@ Legal server options are: skip noskip authenticate (or auth) + timeout Legal user options are |