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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1999-09-23 02:00:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1999-09-23 02:00:29 +0000 |
| commit | ba16d6471724b0c3786d4a302a9b1d9270a9d439 (patch) | |
| tree | 147a8c1b0804ededc9835728c806b582fa865379 | |
| parent | 6ccc1bfe4e4789aaf7050f9bc7c9eb8becdef372 (diff) | |
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MRC's comment.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=2583
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail-FAQ.html | 11 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | fetchmailconf | 7 |
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@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ Release Notes: +fetchmail-5.1.1 (): +* Consistently show dummy arguments on manual page. +* Fix lexer to permit `antispam -1'. +* Added fetchmailconf and FAQ warnings about Novell GroupWise. + +There are 266 people on fetchmail-friends and 444 on fetchmail-announce. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ fetchmail-5.1.0 (Wed Sep 22 01:27:42 EDT 1999): * CRAM-MD5 code now doublequotes usernames with embedded spaces. This will probably fail (the RFCs don't support quoting) but it's better than nothing diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index e99a1f27..afb0b8e8 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: 1999/09/22 21:04:17 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/09/23 02:00:29 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -1449,9 +1449,10 @@ flag to ensure that it's recovered on the next cycle.<p> <h2><a name="S10">S10. How can I use fetchmail with Novell GroupWise?</a></h2> You can't. The Novell GroupWise IMAP server would be better named -GroupFoolish; it is unusably broken. The specific problem is that it -doesn't include a content length in its BODY[TEXT] response, so -fetchmail can't know how much content to fetch. <p> +GroupFoolish; it is (according to the designer of IMAP) unusably +broken. The specific problem is that it doesn't include a required +content length in its BODY[TEXT] response, so fetchmail can't know how +much content to fetch. <p> If GroupWise is capable of supporting POP3, and that implementation isn't also broken, some lucky winner should tell me.<p> @@ -2491,7 +2492,7 @@ inactivity timeout.<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: 1999/09/22 21:04:17 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/09/23 02:00:29 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> diff --git a/fetchmailconf b/fetchmailconf index a86afc34..d64910e9 100755 --- a/fetchmailconf +++ b/fetchmailconf @@ -1128,9 +1128,10 @@ this server. if string.find(greetline, "GroupWise") > 0: warnings = warnings + """ You appear to be using the Novell GroupWise IMAP server. This server would -be better named GroupFoolish; it is unusably broken. The specific problem -is that it doesn't include a content length in its BODY[TEXT] response, so -fetchmail can't know how much content to fetch. +be better named GroupFoolish; according to the designer of IMAP it is unusably +broken. The specific problem is that it doesn't include a required content +length in its BODY[TEXT] response, so fetchmail can't know how much content +to fetch. """ |