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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2000-03-29 19:29:06 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2000-03-29 19:29:06 +0000
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Warning about Lotus Notes.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=2842
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-rw-r--r--fetchmail-FAQ.html14
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
(The `lines' figures total .c, .h, .l, and .y files under version control.)
* Back out the InterChange workaround, it breaks operation with M$ Exchange.
+* Update for cs.po from Jiri Pavlovsky.
+* Prevent spurious hostname matches in fetchmailconf.
+* Ultrix 4.5 port patches from Simon Burge <simonb@thistledown.com.au>.
+* Add bug warnubng to FAQ about Lotus Domino.
fetchmail-5.3.4 (Wed Mar 22 15:55:51 EST 2000), 18819 lines:
diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html
index 27ba0d9e..1d51563d 100644
--- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html
+++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.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: 2000/03/14 01:08:26 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/03/29 19:29:06 $
</table>
<HR>
<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -2523,6 +2523,16 @@ headers introducing type application/pdf, mangling the type
to application/octet-stream. It may corrupt other MIME types
as well.<p>
+The IMAP service of Lotus Domino has a known bug in the way it
+generates MIME Content-type headers (observed on Lotus Domino 5.0.2b).
+It's a subtle one that doesn't show up when Netscape Messenger and
+other clients use a FETCH BODY[] to grab the whole message. When
+fetchmail uses FETCH RFC822.HEADER and FETCH RFC822.TEXT to get first
+the header and then the body, Domino generates different Boundary tags
+for each part, .e.g. one tag is declared in the Content-type header and
+another is used to separate the MIME parts in the body. This doesn't
+work.<p>
+
Rob Funk explains: Unfortunately there also remain many mail user
agents that don't write correct MIME messages. One big offender is Sun
MailTool attachments, which are formatted enough like MIME that some
@@ -2766,7 +2776,7 @@ terminate it.<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: 2000/03/14 01:08:26 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/03/29 19:29:06 $
</table>
<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>