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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-05-14 14:49:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-05-14 14:49:16 +0000 |
| commit | 3a9dc7a4886ef69b0dc7c86e3a908a23e8d4bbdf (patch) | |
| tree | a726b3ecd8bf30182c1539be1793d5841521f363 | |
| parent | 44ffea62b3a6e0ed3d60cf817fb24df67e11ff81 (diff) | |
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Document the NULs problem.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=996
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| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.man | 7 |
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@@ -13,15 +13,14 @@ every user entry in a multi-user poll declaration. form "foo"@bar.com are not parsed correctly, even though they are technically RFC822 legal. The general problem is mentioned on the man page. -* fetchmail has been reported to break when processing 0-length (bodyless) - messages retrieved via IMAP. (Such messages are sometimes issued by the - INN suite as status notifications.) - * Dave Holland <dave@zenda.demon.co.uk> thinks it's a misfeature that --fetchall overrides --limit. He may have a point. Perhaps I should re-code this so --limit is still operative with --fetchall on, but you can turn off the size limit with --limit 0. +* When using the IMAP protocol, fetchmail will hang if your messages have + embedded NUL characters. This is mentioned on the man page. + Release Notes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -33,7 +32,7 @@ pl 3.9.4 (): * Changes to forbid duplicate server names in the rc file. * Do caseblind comparisons of host and user names everywhere. -There are 239 people on the fetchmail-friends list. +There are 248 people on the fetchmail-friends list. pl 3.9.3 (Wed May 7 11:40:47 EDT 1997): * Fix for -I option from George Sipe. diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index ae5cc972..bebfc877 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -735,10 +735,10 @@ Specifying `kpop' sets POP3 protocol over port 1109 with Kerberos V4 authentication. These defaults may be overridden by later options. .PP You can use the noise keywords `and', `with', -`has', `wants', and `options' anywhere in an entry to make +\&`has', `wants', and `options' anywhere in an entry to make it resemble English. They're ignored, but but can make entries much easier to read at a glance. The punctuation characters ':', ';' and -',' are also ignored. +\&',' are also ignored. .PP The words `here' and `there' have useful English-like significance. Normally `user eric is esr' would mean that @@ -1070,6 +1070,9 @@ The RFC822 parser used in multidrop mode chokes on some @-addresses that are technically legal but bizarre. Strange uses of quoting and embedded comments are likely to confuse it. .PP +Retrieval using IMAP will hang if a message has embedded NUL +characters. (This will be fixed in a future release.) +.PP Use of any of the supported protocols other than APOP, KPOP, or ETRN requires that the program send unencrypted passwords over the TCP/IP connection to the mailserver. This creates a risk that name/password pairs |