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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1998-05-16 19:17:42 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1998-05-16 19:17:42 +0000
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Better fix for qpopper TOP problem.
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@@ -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: 1998/05/14 01:35:48 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/05/16 19:17:42 $
</table>
<HR>
<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -1774,11 +1774,16 @@ If your POP3 server fails to sanity-check TOP requests and clip them at
the next end-of-message, it will fetch the entire tail of the mailbox
starting with the current message. The qpopper 2.41 beta 1 server is
known to have this bug (though the qpopper 2.2 found on many Unixes
-does not).<P>
+does not). It's been reported to me that the logic changed in 2.3.<P>
To work around it, set the <code>fetchall</code> option. Under POP3
only, this now has the side effect of forcing RETR use.<P>
+(It is possible this tip is no longer necessary. At least one tester
+has claimed that the bounds check works but was fooled by an overflow
+condition in the TOP argument. Decrementing the argument may have
+fixed this.)<P>
+
<hr>
<h2><a name="O2">O2. Every time I get a POP or IMAP message the header
is dumped to all my terminal sessions.</a></h2>
@@ -1910,7 +1915,7 @@ 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: 1998/05/14 01:35:48 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/05/16 19:17:42 $
</table>
<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>