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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2000-04-21 06:40:21 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2000-04-21 06:40:21 +0000
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@@ -1999,6 +1999,11 @@ The RFC 2177 IDLE support is flaky. It sort of works, but may generate
spurious socket error messages or silently hang in the presence of
various network or server errors.
.PP
+The combination of using a remote name with embedded spaces and POP3
+UIDs will not work; the UIDL-handling code will core-dump while trying
+to read in what it sees as malformed .fetchids lines, typically
+on the second poll after startup.
+.PP
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