From cc97d999c9afbe2e12e66c012c0beedbad5cfecf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:51:47 +0000
Subject: Document a side effect of fetchall.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=1752
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 fetchmail.man | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'fetchmail.man')

diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index e7ff244c..da9d3e51 100644
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ Retrieve both old (seen) and new messages from the mailserver.  The
 default is to fetch only messages the server has not marked seen.
 Note that POP2 retrieval behaves as though --all is always on (see
 RETRIEVAL FAILURE MODES below) and this option does not work with ETRN.
+This option has the side effect or forcing POP3 retrieval to use RETR
+rather than TOP for retrieval, working around buggy implementations
+of the latter in some POP3 servers.
 .TP
 .B \-k, --keep
 (Keyword: keep)
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