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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1998-05-08 19:56:48 +0000
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More G3 advice.
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<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: 1998/04/19 22:21:37 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/05/08 19:56:48 $
</table>
<HR>
<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -171,11 +171,17 @@ bugs, please include the following:
<ol>
<li>Your operating system and compiler version.
+<li>The name and version of the SMTP listener or MDA you are forwarding to.
<li>Any command-line options you used.
<li>The output of fetchmail -V called with whatever other
command-line options you used.
</ol>
+Often, the first thing I will do when you report a bug is tell you to
+upgrade to the newest version, and then see if the problem reproduces.
+So you'll probably save us both time if you upgrade and test with
+the latest version <em>before</em> sending in a bug report.<P>
+
It is helpful if you include your .fetchmailrc, but not necessary
unless your symptom seems to involve an error in configuration parsing.<p>
@@ -1910,7 +1916,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.<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: 1998/04/19 22:21:37 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/05/08 19:56:48 $
</table>
<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>