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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1998-10-09 22:06:43 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1998-10-09 22:06:43 +0000
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Documentation improvements.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=2082
-rw-r--r--fetchmail-features.html6
-rw-r--r--fetchmail.man4
-rwxr-xr-xfetchmailconf10
-rwxr-xr-xindexgen.sh4
4 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fetchmail-features.html b/fetchmail-features.html
index aa0de73d..0d70f3cd 100644
--- a/fetchmail-features.html
+++ b/fetchmail-features.html
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/08/03 19:21:46 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/10/09 22:06:42 $
</table>
<HR>
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
<a href="http://www.demon.net/services/mail/sdps-tech.html">SDPS extensions</a>
in <a href="http://www.demon.net/">www.demon.net</a>'s POP3 service.<P>
-<LI> There is now an interactive GUI fetchmail configurator.
+<LI> There is now an interactive GUI fetchmail configurator, fetchmailconf.
<LI> Code is 64-bit clean and Y2K-safe.
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ get-mail, gwpop, pimp-1.0, pop-perl5-1.2, popc, popmail-1.6 and upop.<P>
<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/08/03 19:21:46 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/10/09 22:06:42 $
</table>
<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index aea4ec15..97ede73d 100644
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ language Python and the Tk toolkit be present on your system. If
you are first setting up fetchmail for single-user mode, it is
recommended that you use Novice mode. Expert mode provides
complete control of fetchmail configuration, including the
-multidrop features.
+multidrop features. In either case, the `Autoprobe' button
+will tell you the most capable protocol a given mailserver
+supported, and warn you of potential problems with that server.
.SH GENERAL OPERATION
The behavior of
diff --git a/fetchmailconf b/fetchmailconf
index e4912c64..51f64829 100755
--- a/fetchmailconf
+++ b/fetchmailconf
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
#
# TO DO: Arrange for save and quit buttons to clean up all frames dependent
# on the current ones.
-version = "1.4"
+version = "1.5"
from Tkinter import *
from Dialog import *
@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ you'll have to build it from sources yourself with the configure
switch --enable-POP2.
"""
- if string.find(greetline, "1.003") > 0 or string.find(greetline, "1.003") > 0:
+ if string.find(greetline, "1.003") > 0 or string.find(greetline, "1.004") > 0:
warnings = warnings + """
This appears to be an old version of the UC Davis POP server. These are
dangerously unreliable (among other problems, they may drop your mailbox
@@ -1029,6 +1029,12 @@ option on all user entries associated with this server, so any stuck
mail will be retrieved next time around.
"""
+ if string.find(greetline, "IMAP4rev1") > 0:
+ warnings = warnings + """
+I see an IMAP4rev1 server. Excellent. This is (a) the best kind of
+remote-mail server, and (b) the one the fetchmail author uses. Fetchmail
+has therefore been extremely well tested with this class of server.
+"""
if warnings == '':
warnings = warnings + """
Fetchmail doesn't know anything special about this server type.
diff --git a/indexgen.sh b/indexgen.sh
index 7139c68b..ab7e15d7 100755
--- a/indexgen.sh
+++ b/indexgen.sh
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ it is pretty hard for anyone to tell that the incoming mail link is
not a full-time "push" connection.<p>
Fetchmail is easy to configure. You can edit its dotfile directly, or
-use the interactive GUI configurator supplied with the fetchmail
-distribution.<P>
+use the interactive GUI configurator (fetchmailconf) supplied with the
+fetchmail distribution.<P>
Fetchmail is fast and lightweight. It packs all its standard
features (POP3, IMAP, and ETRN support) in less than 97K of core on a