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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1999-01-01 18:49:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1999-01-01 18:49:10 +0000 |
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diff --git a/design-notes.html b/design-notes.html index 0501f520..8a48ba6f 100644 --- a/design-notes.html +++ b/design-notes.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Design notes on fetchmail</TITLE> -<link rev=made href=mailto:esr@snark.thyrsus.com> +<link rev=made href="mailto:esr@snark.thyrsus.com"> <meta name="description" content="Design notes on fetchmail."> <meta name="keywords" content="fetchmail, POP, POP2, POP3, IMAP, remote mail"> </HEAD> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="/~esr/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: 1998/12/30 07:49:33 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/01/01 18:49:07 $ </table> <HR> <H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Design Notes On Fetchmail</H1> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ beginning to end.<P> <H1>History</H1> A direct ancestor of the fetchmail program was originally authored -(under the name popclient) by Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com>. I took +(under the name popclient) by Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com>. I took over development in June 1996 and subsequently renamed the program `fetchmail' to reflect the addition of IMAP support. In early November 1996 Carl officially ended support for the last popclient @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ Fortunately, I've only seldom seen a server that incurred significant wait time on an individual response. I judge the gain from this not worth the hideous complexity increase it would require in the code.<P> -<H2>Multiple concurrent instances of fetchmail</H1> +<H2>Multiple concurrent instances of fetchmail</H2> Fetchmail locking is on a per-invoking-user because finer-grained locks would be really hard to implement in a portable way. The @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ careful to preserve.<P> nameserver handy. If not, the poll is skipped. If DNS crashes during a poll, the error return from the next nameserver lookup aborts message delivery and ends the poll. The daemon mode will then quietly spin until - DNS comes up again, at which point it will resume delivering mail.<P> + DNS comes up again, at which point it will resume delivering mail. </OL> When I designed this support, I was terrified of doing anything that could @@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ all shaped the design in one way or another.<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: 1998/12/30 07:49:33 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/01/01 18:49:07 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |