From 4d9ebfc1ae8788f66be711273d73bf4831a7cd4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 19:24:00 +0000 Subject: Ready to ship. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2983 --- fetchmail.man | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fetchmail.man') diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 6f803d43..a9b8a21e 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -221,6 +221,12 @@ news drop for a group of users. The port option permits you to specify a TCP/IP port to connect on. This option will seldom be necessary as all the supported protocols have well-established default port numbers. +.TP +.B \--principal +(Keyword: principal) +The principal option permits you to specify a service principal for +mutual authentication. This is applicable to POP3 or IMAP with Kerberos +authentication. .TP .B \-t, --timeout (Keyword: timeout) @@ -1884,7 +1890,8 @@ on the server but not selected for retrieval.) .IP 2 An error was encountered when attempting to open a socket to retrieve mail. If you don't know what a socket is, don't worry about it -- -just treat this as an 'unrecoverable error'. +just treat this as an 'unrecoverable error'. This error can also be +because a protocol fetchmail wants to use is not listed in /etc/services. .IP 3 The user authentication step failed. This usually means that a bad user-id, password, or APOP id was specified. Or it may mean that you @@ -2054,6 +2061,8 @@ The UIDL code is generally flaky and tends to lose its state on errors and line drops (so that old messages are re-seen). If this happens to you, switch to IMAP4. .PP +The `principal' option only handles Kerberos IV, not V. +.PP Send comments, bug reports, gripes, and the like to the fetchmail-friends list . An HTML FAQ is available at the fetchmail home page; surf to -- cgit v1.2.3