From 458a7508f537cf67c763d14ad2d71a0a8cc58759 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 22:51:44 +0000 Subject: Don't recommend multidrop. svn path=/trunk/; revision=1313 --- indexgen.sh | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'indexgen.sh') diff --git a/indexgen.sh b/indexgen.sh index 1875523e..6cb74968 100755 --- a/indexgen.sh +++ b/indexgen.sh @@ -51,9 +51,11 @@ Fetchmail offers better security than any other Unix remote-mail client. It supports APOP, KPOP, and IMAP RFC1731 encrypted authentication methods to avoid sending passwords en clair.

-Fetchmail can be used as a POP/IMAP-to-SMTP gateway for an entire -DNS domain, collecting mail from a single drop box on an ISP and -SMTP-forwarding it based on envelope and header addresses.

+Fetchmail can be used as a POP/IMAP-to-SMTP gateway for an entire DNS +domain, collecting mail from a single drop box on an ISP and +SMTP-forwarding it based on header addresses. (We don't really +recommend this, though, as it may lose important envelope-header +information. ETRN or a UUCP connection is better.)

Fetchmail can be started automatically and silently as a system daemon at boot time. When running in this mode with a short poll interval, -- cgit v1.2.3