From 785f445b48f5cad5f6d1ade33ef8a271092ca827 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Andree Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:50:41 +0000 Subject: The manual page no longer asserts that .fetchids were for exclusive POP3 use, since it is planned to use it also with IMAP4. svn path=/branches/BRANCH_6-3/; revision=5113 --- NEWS | 4 ++++ fetchmail.man | 6 ++---- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cfaaeea7..9b4d686a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ fetchmail 6.3.9 (not yet released): Fixes Debian Bug#421446 (Holger Leskien), Novell Bug #247233 (Jon Nelson). Thanks to Matthias Strauß for a configuration to reproduce the issue. +# DOCUMENTATION: +* The manual page no longer asserts that .fetchids were for exclusive POP3 use, + since it is planned to use it also with IMAP4. + # TRANSLATION UPDATES: * Polish (Jakub Bogusz) * Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki) diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index dbeedbcd..f729b046 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ else be /dev/null. .TP .B \-i | \-\-idfile (Keyword: idfile) -Specify an alternate name for the .fetchids file used to save POP3 +Specify an alternate name for the .fetchids file used to save message UIDs. NOTE: since fetchmail 6.3.0, write access to the directory containing the idfile is required, as fetchmail writes a temporary file and renames it into the place of the real idfile only if the temporary @@ -2560,9 +2560,7 @@ that of the last host queried. default run control file .TP 5 ~/.fetchids -default location of file associating hosts with last message IDs seen -(used only with newer RFC1939-compliant POP3 servers supporting the -UIDL command). +default location of file recording last message UIDs seen per host. .TP 5 ~/.fetchmail.pid lock file to help prevent concurrent runs (non-root mode). -- cgit v1.2.3