Explain what --idle does.

State that the rcfile keyword was available before 6.0.0 and that
fetchall was available since 3.0.

svn path=/branches/BRANCH_6-3/; revision=4848

diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index 82fcdcbdc6fa49890e8ee68f554a3e688ee7790c..a32e8ad32195e1f423ac1c171e8c170b06484ea7 100644 (file)
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ to be printed.
 .SS Disposal Options
 .TP
 .B \-a | \-\-all | (since v6.3.3) \-\-fetchall
-(Keyword: fetchall)
+(Keyword: fetchall, since v3.0)
 Retrieve both old (seen) and new messages from the mailserver.  The
 default is to fetch only messages the server has not marked seen.
 Under POP3, this option also forces the use of RETR rather than TOP.
@@ -274,11 +274,13 @@ may be removed and forced enabled in a future fetchmail version. See
 also: \-\-idfile.
 .TP
 .B \-\-idle (since 6.3.3)
-(Keyword: idle)
+(Keyword: idle, since before 6.0.0)
 Enable IDLE use (effective only with IMAP). Note that this works with
 only one folder at a given time.  While the idle rcfile keyword had been
 supported for a long time, the \-\-idle command-line option was added in
-version 6.3.3.
+version 6.3.3. IDLE use means that fetchmail tells the IMAP server to
+send notice of new messages, so they can be retrieved sooner than would
+be possible with regular polls.
 .TP
 .B \-P <portnumber> | \-\-service <servicename>
 (Keyword: service) Since version 6.3.0.