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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2002-05-24 06:47:21 +0000
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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: 2002/04/08 23:46:55 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2002/05/24 06:47:21 $
</table>
<HR>
<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ IP address?</a><br>
<a href="#B1">B1. Make coughs and dies when building on FreeBSD.</a><br>
<a href="#B2">B2. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.</a><br>
<a href="#B3">B3. I get link failures when I try to build fetchmail.</a><br>
+<a href="#B4">B4. I get build failures in the intl directory.</a><br>
<h1>Fetchmail configuration file grammar questions:</h1>
@@ -284,7 +285,7 @@ tweaking your configuration.
It is very important that the transcript include your POP/IMAP server's
greeting line, so I can identify it in case of server problems. This
transcript will not reveal your passwords, which are specially masked
-out precisely so the transcript can be passed around.
+out precisely so transcripts can be passed around.
<p>If you upgraded your fetchmail and something broke, you should include
session transcripts with -v -v of both the working and failing
@@ -732,6 +733,14 @@ reconfigure with <tt>configure --with-included-gettext</tt>. This is
due to some brain-damage in the GNU internationalization libraries.
<hr>
+<h2><a name="B4">B4. I get build failures in the intl directory.</a></h2>
+
+<p>Reconfigure with <tt>--disable-nls</tt> and recompile.
+
+<p>GNU gettext is an overengineered, fragile pile of crap. I have
+teetered on the brink of removing support for it entirely several times.
+
+<hr>
<h2><a name="F1">F1. Why does my old .fetchmailrc file no longer work?</a></h2>
<h3>If your file predates 5.8.9</h3>
@@ -1820,7 +1829,7 @@ doing standard IMAP authentication, fetchmail should ssh to the server
and run imapd, using the more secure ssh authentication (as well as
getting ssh's end-to-end encryption). Most IMAP daemons will detect
that they've been called from the command line and assume the
-connection is peauthenticated.
+connection is preauthenticated.
<p>POP3 daemons aren't quite as smart. They won't know they are
preauthenticated in this mode, so you'll actually have to ship your
@@ -3025,7 +3034,7 @@ date from the last Received header.<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: 2002/04/08 23:46:55 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2002/05/24 06:47:21 $
</table>
<ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>