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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-11-08 09:39:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-11-08 09:39:47 +0000 |
| commit | 8b8c2367a4b26921c6ec097b7d624f073c71fb04 (patch) | |
| tree | 58bb6b309034697c4ac3921d2aba8f4110c134de /INSTALL | |
| parent | fa16833a7c8acac208d07417c1e6a447815c4ff1 (diff) | |
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Improved installation instructions.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=511
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@@ -68,12 +68,6 @@ more, and using an MDA for delivery is discouraged. If you throw those options away, fetchmail will now forward your mail into your system's normal Internet-mail delivery path. -If you use an MDA with popclient or an older version of fetchmail that -requires %s in the MDA string in order to substitute in a local -delivery address, remove it. One consequences of the internal changes -to support multi-drop mailboxes is that local delivery addresses will -be appended to the end of the command in the obvious way. - Actually, using an MDA is now almost always the wrong thing; the MDA facility has been retained only for people who can't or won't run a sendmail-like SMTP listener on port 25. The default, SMTP forwarding @@ -105,21 +99,25 @@ of gcc seem to have an optimizer bug that affects fetchmail. If your fetchmail core dumps (especially near startup) try recompiling without -O. Alternatively, you can drop back to gcc 2.7.2 or below. -6. USE IT - -Enjoy! - -7. REPORTING BUGS +6. REPORTING BUGS When reporting bugs, please include the following: -1. Your operating system. +1. Your operating system and compiler version. 2. The release and patch level of the fetchmail you are running. You can see your patchlevel by typing `fetchmail -V'. 3. The output of fetchmail -V (this will not reveal your password). 4. Any command-line options you used. -It is helpful if you include your .fetchmailrc but not necessary -unless your bug involves an error in configuration parsing. +It is helpful if you include your .fetchmailrc, but not necessary +unless your symptom seems to involve an error in configuration parsing. + +A transcript of the failed session with -v on is almost always useful. +If the bug involves a core dump, a gdb stack trace is good to have. + +Best of all is a mail file which, when fetched, will reproduce the bug. + +7. USE IT + +Enjoy! -A transcript of the failed session with -v on is often useful. |