From 6feef116d81caa80cc12ebdfc041df358418f2f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 01:14:01 +0000 Subject: We can now set the envelope header from the command line. svn path=/trunk/; revision=723 --- fetchmail.man | 19 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail.man') diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 27123ab3..e035af83 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -236,6 +236,13 @@ nonzero size will prevent these delays. Limit the number of messages accepted from a given server in a single poll. By default there is no limit. .TP +.B -E, --envelope +This option changes the header +.I fetchmail +assumes will carry a copy of the mail's envelope address. Normally +this is `X-Envelope-To' but as this header is not standard, practice +varies. See the discussion of multidrop address handling below. +.TP .B \-V, --version Displays the version information for your copy of .I fetchmail. @@ -410,7 +417,7 @@ or --nodetach option suppresses detachment of the daemon process from its control terminal. This is primarily useful for debugging. .PP Note that while running in daemon mode, transient errors (such as DNS -failures or sendmail delivery refusals) effectively force the fetchall +failures or sendmail delivery refusals) may force the fetchall option on for the duration of the next polling cycle. This is a robustness feature. It means that if a message is fetched (and thus marked seen by the mailserver) but not delivered locally @@ -544,7 +551,7 @@ Legal user options are syslog .PP All options correspond to the obvious command-line arguments except -the following: `aka', `is', `to', `password', `envelope', and `preconnect'. +the following: `aka', `is', `to', `password', and `preconnect'. .PP The `aka' option is for use with multidrop mailboxes. It allows you to pre-declare a list of DNS aliases for a server. This is an @@ -554,12 +561,6 @@ 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. .PP -The `envelope' option changes the header -.I fetchmail -assumes will carry a copy of the mail's envelope address. Normally -this is `X-Envelope-To' but as this header is not standard practice -varies. See the discussion of multidrop address handling below. -.PP The `is' or `to' keywords associate the following local (client) name(s) (or server-name to client-name mappings separated by =) with the mailserver user name in the entry. If an is/to list has `*' as @@ -793,7 +794,7 @@ than one recipient. Alternatively, some SMTP listeners and/or mail servers insert a header in each message containing a copy of the envelope addresses. This header (when it exists) is often `X-Envelope-To'. Fetchmail's -assumption about this can be changed with the `envelope' option. +assumption about this can be changed with the -E or `envelope' option. .SH EXIT CODES To facilitate the use of .I fetchmail -- cgit v1.2.3