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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2000-03-29 19:29:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2000-03-29 19:29:06 +0000 |
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Warning about Lotus Notes.
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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 27ba0d9e..1d51563d 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <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: 2000/03/14 01:08:26 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/03/29 19:29:06 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -2523,6 +2523,16 @@ headers introducing type application/pdf, mangling the type to application/octet-stream. It may corrupt other MIME types as well.<p> +The IMAP service of Lotus Domino has a known bug in the way it +generates MIME Content-type headers (observed on Lotus Domino 5.0.2b). +It's a subtle one that doesn't show up when Netscape Messenger and +other clients use a FETCH BODY[] to grab the whole message. When +fetchmail uses FETCH RFC822.HEADER and FETCH RFC822.TEXT to get first +the header and then the body, Domino generates different Boundary tags +for each part, .e.g. one tag is declared in the Content-type header and +another is used to separate the MIME parts in the body. This doesn't +work.<p> + Rob Funk explains: Unfortunately there also remain many mail user agents that don't write correct MIME messages. One big offender is Sun MailTool attachments, which are formatted enough like MIME that some @@ -2766,7 +2776,7 @@ terminate it.<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: 2000/03/14 01:08:26 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/03/29 19:29:06 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |