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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2001-07-25 09:06:23 +0000 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2001-07-25 09:06:23 +0000 |
commit | b7a995759e5d2dc7741c1352d817b38af5cd1ef7 (patch) | |
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Documentation fixes.
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-rw-r--r-- | fetchmail-features.html | 6 | ||||
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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index fb66cac3..f2e3b44e 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: 2001/07/25 07:18:36 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/07/25 09:06:23 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ for AUTH=KERBEROS_V4 in the CAPABILITY response. <p>If you are fetching mail from a CompuServe POP3 account, you can use their RPA authentication (which works much like APOP). See <a href="#S3">S3</a> for details. If you are fetching mail from -Microsoft Exchange, you will be able to use NTLM. +Microsoft Exchange using IMAP, you will be able to use NTLM. <p>Your POP3 server may have the RFC1938 OTP capability to use one-time passwords (if it doesn't, you can get OTP patches for the 2.2 version @@ -1376,10 +1376,11 @@ RFC-compliant server. IMAP is alleged to work OK, though. <p>Older versions of Exchange are semi-usable. -<p>Fetchmail supports the proprietary NTLM mode used with M$ Exchange -servers. To enable this, configure fetchmail with the --enable-NTLM -option and recompile it. Note: if you specify a user option value -that looks like `user@domain', the part to the left of the @ will + +<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 @@ -1465,8 +1466,6 @@ our friends in Redmond. <ul> <li> -Try giving fetchmail a username of "/NTDomain/NTUsername/MailboxName". -<li> Get your administrator to configure the server so that usernames and mailbox names are the same. <li> @@ -2880,7 +2879,7 @@ 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: 2001/07/25 07:18:36 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/07/25 09:06:23 $ </table> <ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> diff --git a/fetchmail-features.html b/fetchmail-features.html index 75c07875..be38896f 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: 2001/06/05 06:57:54 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/07/25 09:06:23 $ </table> <HR> @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ regulatory policy, hooks for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) are now part of the main fetchmail distribution. The distribution still contains no actual cryptographic code. -<LI>NTLM support, so fetchmail can query Microsoft Exchange servers. +<LI>NTLM support under IMAP, so fetchmail can query Microsoft Exchange servers. <LI>Expunge option can now be used to break POP3 retrieval into subsessions. @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ get-mail, gwpop, pimp-1.0, pop-perl5-1.2, popc, popmail-1.6 and upop. <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: 2001/06/05 06:57:54 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/07/25 09:06:23 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 56729900..00f2072d 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -776,13 +776,13 @@ compile in the support, \fIfetchmail\fR will try to perform an RPA pass-phrase authentication instead of sending over the password en clair if it detects "@compuserve.com" in the hostname. .PP -Microsoft's NTLM authentication (used by Microsoft Exchange) is -supported. If you compile in the support, \fIfetchmail\fR will try to -perform an NTLM authentication (instead of sending over the +If you are using IMAP, Microsoft's NTLM authentication (used by Microsoft +Exchange) is supported. If you compile in the support, \fIfetchmail\fR +will try to perform an NTLM authentication (instead of sending over the password en clair) whenever the server returns AUTH=NTLM in its -capability response. Note: if you 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. +capability response. 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. .PP If you are using IPsec, the -T (--netsec) option can be used to pass an IP security request to be used when outgoing IP connections are @@ -1242,7 +1242,7 @@ T} port -P T{ Specify TCP/IP service port T} -auth[enticate] -A T{ +auth[enticate] \& T{ Set authentication type (default `password') T} timeout -t T{ @@ -1671,13 +1671,15 @@ Legal protocol identifiers for use with the `protocol' keyword are: kpop (or KPOP) .PP -Legal authentication types are `password', `kerberos', and `gssapi'. +Legal authentication types are `any', `password', `kerberos', 'kereberos_v5' +and `gssapi', `cram-md5', `otp', `ntlm', `ssh`. The `password' type specifies authentication by normal transmission of a password (the password may be plaintext or subject to protocol-specific encryption as in APOP); `kerberos' tells \fIfetchmail\fR to try to get a Kerberos ticket at the start of each query instead, and send an arbitrary string as the password; and -`gssapi' tells fetchmail to use GSSAPI authentication. +`gssapi' tells fetchmail to use GSSAPI authentication. See the description +of the `auth' keyword for more. .PP Specifying `kpop' sets POP3 protocol over port 1109 with Kerberos V4 authentication. These defaults may be overridden by later options. |