From f14635152fcc38a703f806dcfeb3fc51d3e55365 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 04:10:43 +0000 Subject: LinuxWorld hacks. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2729 --- fetchmail.man | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail.man') diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 87a16229..94cb377d 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -490,9 +490,12 @@ when interface data is being collected. This option permits you to specify a preauthentication type (see USER AUTHENTICATION below for details). The possible values are \&`\fBpassword\fR', `\fBkerberos_v5\fR' and `\fBkerberos\fR' (or, for -excruciating exactness, `\fBkerberos_v4\fR'). This option is provided -primarily for developers; choosing KPOP protocol automatically selects -Kerberos preauthentication, and all other alternatives use password +excruciating exactness, `\fBkerberos_v4\fR'), and \fBssh\fR. Use +\fBssh\fR to suppress fetchmail's normal inquiry for a password when +you are using an end-to-end secure connection such as an ssh tunnel. +Other values of this option are provided primarily for developers; +choosing KPOP protocol automatically selects Kerberos +preauthentication, and all other alternatives use password authentication (though APOP uses a generated one-time key as the password and IMAP-K4 uses RFC1731 Kerberos v4 authentication). This option does not work with ETRN. @@ -578,7 +581,9 @@ configuration report to standard output. The configuration report is a data structure assignment in the language Python. This option is meant to be used with an interactive .I ~/.fetchmailrc -editor written in Python. +editor like +.IR fetchmailconf , +written in Python. .SH USER AUTHENTICATION AND ENCRYPTION Every mode except ETRN requires authentication of the client. @@ -684,6 +689,9 @@ the \fI.fetchmailrc\fR option \fBuser\fR. If your IMAP daemon returns the PREAUTH response in its greeting line, fetchmail will notice this and skip the normal authentication step. This could be useful, e.g. if you start imapd explicitly using ssh. +In this case you can declare the preauthentication value `ssh' on that +site entry to stop \fI.fetchmail\fR from asking you for a password +when it starts up. .PP If you are using POP3, and the server issues a one-time-password challenge conforming to RFC1938, \fIfetchmail\fR will use your @@ -1970,7 +1978,7 @@ POP2: RFC 937 .TP 5 POP3: -RFC 1081, RFC 1225, RFC 1460, RFC 1725, RFC 1939, RFC 2449 +RFC 1081, RFC 1225, RFC 1460, RFC 1725, RFC 1939, RFC 1957, RFC2195, RFC 2449 .TP 5 APOP: RFC 1460, RFC 1725, RFC 1939 -- cgit v1.2.3