Re: [fetchmail-users] "requires envelope option!"

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Rob MacGregor schrieb:
> On 8/27/07, Anne Wilson <can...@go...> wrote:
> <---SNIP--->
>> Now I understand, and also why I don't have the problem on my account.  When I
>> set up his I did go back to the man page to refresh my memory.  I
>> misunderstood the entry '-a | --all | (since v6.3.3) --fetchall', reading it,
>> actually in reverse.  Instead of --fetchall, as in my accounts, I used what I
>> thought I had seen to be the preferred '-a'.  Duh!
> 
> Actually, it's worse than that (but you're helping show we need a
> re-write of the manual).  The entries that begin with a hyphen (-a,
> --all, --fetchall) are all command line options.  The only one valid
> in the .fetchmailrc is the keyword (fetchall).  The manual doesn't
> make the distinction terribly clear (it's mentioned only in passing).
> 

I've long since pondered requiring an explicit multidrop keyword in the
next major fetchmail version, and complaining about multiple destination
addresses without that magic "multidrop" keyword.

While fetchmail's implicit "understanding" of the verbose rcfiles may be
useful, I more often than not think that fetchmail does far too many things
automatically under the hood -- and personally I detest such kind of
surprise...

Best
Matthias