aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/fetchmail-FAQ.html
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2005-07-03 22:11:29 +0000
committerMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2005-07-03 22:11:29 +0000
commitd9a05c27e474dc2aca7fe591b29cbfe5637c73d4 (patch)
tree95404c462f6be11281a33e2ade7f23f7093b5dbf /fetchmail-FAQ.html
parentc7b714900c6e452ac37c54f7ff2c419fbd1194b2 (diff)
downloadfetchmail-d9a05c27e474dc2aca7fe591b29cbfe5637c73d4.tar.gz
fetchmail-d9a05c27e474dc2aca7fe591b29cbfe5637c73d4.tar.bz2
fetchmail-d9a05c27e474dc2aca7fe591b29cbfe5637c73d4.zip
Make the FAQ well-formed XHTML.
Update sections on inet6-apps and IPv6/IPsec. svn path=/trunk/; revision=4080
Diffstat (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html')
-rw-r--r--fetchmail-FAQ.html38
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html
index edf73dd1..7e17e3e7 100644
--- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html
+++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html
@@ -1977,8 +1977,8 @@ Geocities are lame, you should boycott them anyway.</p>
webmail with the help of the <a
href='http://people.freenet.de/courierdave/'>HotWayDaemon</a>
daemon. You don't even need to install hotwayd as a daemon in
-<filename>inetd.conf</filename> but can use it as a plugin. Your
-configuration should look like this:<p>
+<samp>inetd.conf</samp> but can use it as a plugin. Your
+configuration should look like this:</p>
<pre>
poll localhost protocol pop3 tracepolls
@@ -2043,13 +2043,14 @@ IPsec?</a></h2>
<p>To use fetchmail with IPv6, you need a system that supports
IPv6, the "Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6" (RFC 2133).
-This currently means that you need to have a BSD/OS or NetBSD
-system with the NRL IPv6+IPsec software distribution or a Linux
-system with a 2.2 or later kernel and net-tools. It should not be
-hard to build fetchmail on other IPv6 implementations if you can
-port the inet6-apps kit.</p>
-
-<p>To use fetchmail with networking security (read: IPsec), you
+</p>
+
+<p><strong>Note that the inet6-apps library is no longer available, so
+ we're sorry to say that IPsec support is no longer available at this
+ time. The IPsec information in the next three paragraphs is obsolete
+ and only included here for historic reasons and no longer
+ accurate.</strong></p> <p>To use fetchmail with networking
+security (read: IPsec), you
need a system that supports IPsec, the API described in the
"Network Security API for Sockets"
(draft-metz-net-security-api-01.txt), and the inet6-apps kit. This
@@ -2062,7 +2063,7 @@ coming months.</p>
<a
href="http://web.mit.edu/network/isakmp">http://web.mit.edu/network/isakmp</a></p>
-<p>The inet6-apps kit can be obtained from <a
+<p>The inet6-apps kit used to be available from <a
href="http://ftp.ps.pl/pub/linux/IPv6/inet6-apps/">http://ftp.ps.pl/pub/linux/IPv6/inet6-apps/</a>.</p>
<p>More information on using IPv6 with Linux can be obtained
@@ -2072,14 +2073,6 @@ from:</p>
<li><a
href="http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/IPv6-HOWTO/IPv6-HOWTO.html">
http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/IPv6-HOWTO/IPv6-HOWTO.html</a></li>
-
-<li><a
-href="http://www.ipv6.inner.net/ipv6">http://www.ipv6.inner.net/ipv6</a>
-(via IPv6)</li>
-
-<li><a
-href="http://www.inner.net/ipv6">http://www.inner.net/ipv6</a> (via
-IPv4)</li>
</ul>
<hr/>
@@ -3449,7 +3442,8 @@ the received date from the last Received header.</p>
immediately" in my logs.</a></h2>
<p>This is your server barfing on the CAPA probe that fetchmail sends.</p>
-If you run fetchmail in daemon mode (say "set daemon 600"), you will
+
+<p>If you run fetchmail in daemon mode (say "set daemon 600"), you will
get the message only once per run.</p>
<p>If you set an authentication method explicitly (say, with
@@ -3472,7 +3466,7 @@ not keen on checking the sender addresses. This problem typically
occurs if your mail server is not checking the sender addresses, but
your local server is.</p>
-<p>Or you could declare <code>antispam 451<code></p>
+<p>Or you could declare <code>antispam 451</code>.</p>
<p>Or, you could check your nameserver configuration and query logs for
dns errors.</p>
@@ -3482,8 +3476,8 @@ dns errors.</p>
<hr />
<h2><a name="O13">O13. I want timestamp information in my fetchmail logs.</a></h2>
-<p>Write a <code>preconnect</connect> command in your configuration file that
-does something like "date >> $HOME/Procmail/fetchmail.log".</p>
+<p>Write a <code>preconnect</code> command in your configuration file that
+does something like "date &gt;&gt; $HOME/Procmail/fetchmail.log".</p>
<hr/>
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" summary="Canned page footer">