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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index db79f303..d88c68ec 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -110,6 +110,12 @@ fetched mail to programs like procmail. If the MDA string contains machine. Some possible MDAs are "/usr/formail", "/usr/bin/deliver %s", "/usr/lib/sendmail -oem %s". .TP +.B \-S host, --smtphost host +Specify an SMTP forwarding host. If you specify this option, fetched +mail is delivered by SMTP over a socket connection to the specified +host. This simulates the way mail would be delivered to that host +by a normal Internet mail connection. +.TP .B \--protocol proto Specify the protocol to used when communicating with the remote mailserver. If no protocol is specified, @@ -395,6 +401,7 @@ Legal keywords are: remotefolder (or remote) localfolder (or local) mda + smtphost (or smtp) keep flush fetchall @@ -529,6 +536,10 @@ Exclusion error. This means either found another copy of itself already running, or failed in such a way that it isn't sure whether another copy is running. .IP 9 +The +.I popclient. +run failed while trying to do an SMTP port open or transaction. +.IP 10 Something totally undefined occured. This is usually caused by a bug within .I popclient. Do let me know if this happens. @@ -552,6 +563,10 @@ 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. +.PP The --remotefolder option doesn't work with POP3. .PP The UIDL support for RFC1725-compliant servers without LAST is not yet |