From: Johann 'M. O. <myr...@ai...> - 2012-02-02 02:13:56
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Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> writes: > improving documentation is a constant struggle, so please help me a > bit: > Where did you look first, so that I can amend to that section, or > redirect users to the command line options? In this particular case, once I had learned of the option, I looked to the tables for the run control file. bad-header How to treat messages with a bad header. Can be reject (default) or accept. Notice that just above that we have uidl -U Force POP3 to use client-side UIDLs (recommended) no uidl Turn off POP3 use of client-side UIDLs (default) So it stands to reason one is supposed to use "bad-header" to accept bad headers and just leave it out to reject it. I recommend having the format given for the command line option reflected in the table too. --bad-header {reject|accept} Somewhat akin to bad-header {reject|accept} How to treat messages with a bad header. Can be reject (default) or accept. or have two entries like other options. bad-header reject Reject messages with bad headers (the default). bad-header accept Accept messages with bad headers. I can not propose any one definite answer, only to have it clear that the keywords "accept" and "reject" are also required in the run control file without having to scroll all the way back to the command line options to see it; in a manner that is consistent with the rest of the man page. > I routinely suggest to add "sslcertck" (without quotes), too, it would > go somewhere after the user option somewhere, for instance, "ssl > sslcertck keep". A future fetchmail release will make that default, > but considerations about compatibility with older versions made me not > do that in 6.X.Y versions. Done. I've simplified my run control file and added it to my defaults: defaults proto pop3 service 995 uidl fastuidl 6 ssl sslcertck keep > To use that, one may need to install root certificates (if such a > package is available and how it's named depends on the respective > distribution). Seems fine at first test. I know where to find my root certificates if I have to tell fetchmail about them. Johann |