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 --- fetchmail.man | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail.man') 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