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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2001-09-26 14:11:25 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2001-09-26 14:11:25 +0000
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Amplify stuff about Exchange braindamage.
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<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: 2001/09/09 10:40:08 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/09/26 14:11:25 $
</table>
<HR>
<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -1376,17 +1376,16 @@ RFC-compliant server. IMAP is alleged to work OK, though.
<p>Older versions of Exchange are semi-usable.
-
<p>Fetchmail using IMAP supports the proprietary NTLM mode used with
M$ Exchange servers. To enable this, configure fetchmail with the
--enable-NTLM option and recompile it. Specify a user option value
that looks like `user@domain': the part to the left of the @ will
be passed as the username and the part to the right as the NTLM domain.
-<p>M$ Exchange violates the POP3 RFCs. Its LIST command does not reveal
-the real sizes of mail in the pop mailbox, but the sizes of the
-compressed versions in the exchange mail database (thanks to Arjan De
-Vet and Guido Van Rooij for alerting us to this problem).
+<p>M$ Exchange violates the POP3 and IMAP RFCs. Its LIST command does
+not reveal the real sizes of mail in the pop mailbox, but the sizes of
+the compressed versions in the exchange mail database (thanks to Arjan
+De Vet and Guido Van Rooij for alerting us to this problem).
<p>Fetchmail works with M$ Exchange, despite this brain damage. Two
features are compromised. One is that the --limit option will not
@@ -1473,7 +1472,7 @@ Get your administrator to add an alias that maps your
username explicitly to your mailbox name.
</ul>
-But, the best option involves a tactical nuclear weapon (an old
+<p>But, the best option involves a tactical nuclear weapon (an old
ASROC will do), pissing off a lot people who live downwind from
Redmond, and your choice of any Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, or
Solaris CD.
@@ -2879,7 +2878,7 @@ date from the last Received header.<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: 2001/09/09 10:40:08 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/09/26 14:11:25 $
</table>
<ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>