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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2001-04-26 03:24:47 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2001-04-26 03:24:47 +0000
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Now let's try to resolve the authentication problem.
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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: 2001/04/10 12:45:53 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/04/26 03:24:46 $
</table>
<HR>
<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -1340,7 +1340,16 @@ for details. The solution is to upgrade your fetchmail.
<hr>
<h2><a name="S2">S2. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft Exchange?</a></h2>
-Fetchmail now supports the proprietary NTLM mode used with M$ Exchange
+<p>It's been reliably reported that Exchange 2000's POP3 support is so
+broken that it's unusable. One symptom is that messages without
+a terminating newline get the POP3 message termination dot emitted --
+you guessed it -- right after the last character of the message, with
+no terminating newline added. This will hang fetchmail or any other
+RFC-compliant server. IMAP is alleged to work OK, though.
+
+<p>Older versions of Exchange are semi-usable.
+
+<p>Fetchmail supports the proprietary NTLM mode used with M$ Exchange
servers. To enable this, configure fetchmail with the --enable-NTLM
option and recompile it. Note: if you specify a user option value
that looks like `user@domain', the part to the left of the @ will
@@ -2941,7 +2950,7 @@ switching to IMAP and using a short expunge interval.
<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: 2001/04/10 12:45:53 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/04/26 03:24:46 $
</table>
<ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>