* The maintainer may migrate fetchmail to C++ with STL or C#, and impose further
requirements (dependencies), such as Boost or other class libraries.
* The softbounce option default will change to "false" in the next release.
+* The --bsmtp - mode of operation may be removed in a future release.
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Append fetched mail to a BSMTP file. This simply contains the SMTP
commands that would normally be generated by fetchmail when passing
-mail to an SMTP listener daemon. An argument of '\-' causes the mail
-to be written to standard output. Note that fetchmail's
-reconstruction of MAIL FROM and RCPT TO lines is not guaranteed
-correct; the caveats discussed under THE USE AND ABUSE OF MULTIDROP
-MAILBOXES below apply. This mode has precedence before \-\-mda and
-SMTP/LMTP.
+mail to an SMTP listener daemon.
+
+An argument of '\-' causes the SMTP batch to be written to standard
+output, which is of limited use: this only makes sense for debugging,
+because fetchmail's regular output is interspersed on the same channel,
+so this isn't suitable for mail delivery. This special mode may be
+removed in a later release.
+
+Note that fetchmail's reconstruction of MAIL FROM and RCPT TO lines is
+not guaranteed correct; the caveats discussed under THE USE AND ABUSE OF
+MULTIDROP MAILBOXES below apply. This mode has precedence before
+\-\-mda and SMTP/LMTP.
.TP
.B \-\-bad\-header {reject|accept}
(Keyword: bad\-header; since v6.3.15)