From 0924f480811e3235fe6c81818353c74ba30cc6af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:03:11 +0000
Subject: We now match suffixes.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2819
---
 fetchmail-features.html | 10 +++++++---
 fetchmail.man           |  6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fetchmail-features.html b/fetchmail-features.html
index 33dd5950..4643ee50 100644
--- a/fetchmail-features.html
+++ b/fetchmail-features.html
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
 <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
 <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/03/06 06:34:43 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/03/13 21:03:10 $
 </table>
 <HR>
 
@@ -19,7 +19,11 @@
 <H2>Since 5.0:</H2>
 <UL>
 <LI>
-Fetcmail can optionally use the RFC 2177 IDLE extension on an IMAP 
+The aka option now matches hostname suffixes, so (for example) saying
+`aka netaxs.com' will match not just netaxs.com but also (say)
+pop3.netaxs.com and mail.netaxs.com.
+<LI>
+Fetchmail can optionally use the RFC 2177 IDLE extension on an IMAP 
 server that supports it.
 
 <LI>
@@ -196,7 +200,7 @@ get-mail, gwpop, pimp-1.0, pop-perl5-1.2, popc, popmail-1.6 and upop.<P>
 <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
 <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
 <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/03/06 06:34:43 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/03/13 21:03:10 $
 </table>
 
 <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index faf4d1d9..fa39ad11 100644
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -1398,7 +1398,11 @@ optimization hack that allows you to trade space for speed.  When
 .IR fetchmail ,
 while processing a multidrop mailbox, grovels through message headers
 looking for names of the mailserver, pre-declaring common ones can
-save it from having to do DNS lookups.
+save it from having to do DNS lookups.  Note: the names you give
+as arguments to `aka' are matched as suffixes -- if you specify 
+(say) `aka netaxs.com', this will match not just a hostnamed
+netaxs.com, but any hostname that ends with `.netaxs.com'; such as 
+(say) pop3.netaxs.com and mail.netaxs.com.
 .PP
 The `localdomains' option allows you to declare a list of domains
 which fetchmail should consider local.  When fetchmail is parsing
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