From e0ec82cf5e4e9ca3070ed5a3ff51b1ff927fe7f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 16:45:09 +0000
Subject: Add settable server-nonresponse timeout

svn path=/trunk/; revision=325
---
 fetchmail.man | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

(limited to 'fetchmail.man')

diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index 863d242d..f8e3236f 100644
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -284,6 +284,17 @@ will kill a running daemon process.  Otherwise, calling fetchmail with
 a daemon in the background sends a wakeup signal to the daemon,
 forcing it to poll mailservers immediately.
 .PP
+The 
+.B -t
+or
+.B --timeout
+option allows you to set a server-nonresponse timeout in seconds.  If
+a mailserver does not send a greeting message or respond to commands for
+the given number of seconds, \fIfetchmail\fR will hang up on it.
+Without such a timeout \fIfetchmail\fR might hang up indefinitely
+trying to fetch mail from a down host.  This would be particularly
+annoying for a server running in background.
+.PP
 The
 .B -L
 or
@@ -368,6 +379,7 @@ Legal server options are:
     skip
     noskip
     authenticate (or auth)
+    timeout
 
 Legal user options are
 
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