From 87835075d4f5d1adf0e253861ae2bc3b15dfeae4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:26:43 +0000 Subject: Node IDLE restriction. svn path=/trunk/; revision=3272 --- fetchmail.man | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail.man') diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 8bf73855..27d70d67 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -1582,9 +1582,10 @@ of each poll. This will tell the IMAP server to hold the connection open and notify the client when new mail is available. If you need to poll a link frequently, IDLE can save bandwidth by eliminating TCP/IP connects and LOGIN/LOGOUT sequences. On the other hand, an IDLE -connection will eat almost akll of your fetchmail's time, because it +connection will eat almost all of your fetchmail's time, because it will never drop the connection and allow other pools to occur unless -the server times out the IDLE. +the server times out the IDLE. It also doesn't work with multiple +folders; only the first folder will ever be polled. .PP The `properties' option is an extension mechanism. It takes a string argument, which is ignored by fetchmail itself. The string argument may be -- cgit v1.2.3