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Diffstat (limited to 'fetchmail.man')
| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.man | 18 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index b6825117..1fd25bf9 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ Legal user options are username (or user) is + to password (or pass) remotefolder (or remote) smtphost (or smtp) @@ -399,14 +400,15 @@ Legal user options are norewrite .PP All options correspond to the obvious command-line arguments except -three: \fBis\fR, \fBpassword\fR and \fBskip\fR. -.PP -The \fBis\fR keyword associates a following local username with the -mailserver user name in the entry. It is intended to be used in -configurations where \fIfetchmail\fR runs as root and retrieves -mail for multiple local users. If no \fBis\fR clause is present, -the default local username is the same as the argument of the -\fBuser\fR keyword. +four: \fBis\fR, \fBto\fR, \fBpassword\fR and \fBskip\fR. +.PP +The \fBis\fR or \fIto\fR keywords associate a following local +username with the mailserver user name in the entry. They are intended +to be used in configurations where \fIfetchmail\fR runs as root and +retrieves mail for multiple local users. If no \fBis\fR or \fIto\fR +clause is present, the default local username is the calling user, +unless the calling user is root in which case it is the remote user +name of the current entry. .PP The \fBpassword\fR option requires a string argument, which is the password to be used with the entry's server. |