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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1998-08-25 02:57:54 +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: 1998/08/24 16:53:43 $
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</table>
<HR>
<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -539,6 +539,14 @@ once you have installed the `bind' package.<P>
<hr>
<h2><a name="F1">F1. Why does my old .fetchmailrc file no longer work?</a></h2>
+<h3>If your file predates 4.5.5</h3>
+
+If the <code>dns</code> option is on (the default), you may need to
+make sure that any hostname you specify (for mail hosts or for an SMTP
+target) is a canonical fully-qualified hostname). In order to avoid
+DNS overhead and complications, fetchmail no longer tries to derive
+the fetchmail client machine's canonical DNS name at startup.<P>
+
<h3>If your file predates 4.0.6:</h3>
Just after the `<CODE>via</CODE>' option was introduced, I realized
@@ -2101,7 +2109,7 @@ 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: 1998/08/24 16:53:43 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/08/25 02:57:54 $
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<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>