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Diffstat (limited to 'fetchmail.man')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 87cd0c90..6fcc792b 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -347,6 +347,8 @@ Legal server options are: server protocol (or proto) port + skip + noskip Legal user options are @@ -360,12 +362,10 @@ Legal user options are flush fetchall rewrite - skip nokeep noflush nofetchall norewrite - noskip .PP All options correspond to the obvious command-line arguments except three: \fBis\fR, \fBpassword\fR and \fBskip\fR. @@ -386,7 +386,8 @@ not to query this host unless it is explicitly named on the command line. A host entry with this flag will be skipped when .I fetchmail called with no arguments steps through all hosts in the run control file. -(This option allows you to experiment with test entries safely.) +(This option allows you to experiment with test entries safely, or easily +disable entries for hosts that are temporarily down.) .PP Legal protocol identifiers are @@ -397,7 +398,7 @@ Legal protocol identifiers are apop (or APOP) rpop (or RPOP) .PP -You can also use the `noise' keywords \fBand\fR, \fBwith\fR, +You can use the `noise' keywords \fBand\fR, \fBwith\fR, \fBhas\fR, \fBwants\fR, and \fBoptions\fR anywhere in an entry to make it resemble English. They're ignored, but but can make entries much easier to read at a glance. The punctuation characters ':', ';' and @@ -409,6 +410,9 @@ mail for the remote user \fBeric\fR is to be delivered to \fBesr\fR, but you can make this clearer by saying `\fBuser eric there is esr here\fR', or reverse it by saying `\fBuser esr here is eric there\fR' .PP +Finally, instead of saying `\fBserver fubar.com skip\fR ...' you can say +\&`\fBskip server fubar.com\fR ...' +.PP Basic format is: .nf @@ -451,9 +455,9 @@ If you need to include whitespace in a parameter string, enclose the string in double quotes. Thus: .nf - server mail.provider.net proto pop3 - user jsmith has password "u can't krak this" - and wants mda "/bin/mail %s" + server mail.provider.net with proto pop3 + user jsmith there has password "u can't krak this" + is jws here and wants mda "/bin/mail %s" .fi You may have an initial server description headed by the keyword @@ -467,7 +471,7 @@ by individual server descriptions. So, you could write: server pop.provider.net pass secret1 server mail.provider.net - user jjsmith has password secret2 + user jjsmith there has password secret2 .fi It's possible to specify more than one user per server (this is only |