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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-05-14 14:49:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-05-14 14:49:16 +0000 |
| commit | 3a9dc7a4886ef69b0dc7c86e3a908a23e8d4bbdf (patch) | |
| tree | a726b3ecd8bf30182c1539be1793d5841521f363 /fetchmail.man | |
| parent | 44ffea62b3a6e0ed3d60cf817fb24df67e11ff81 (diff) | |
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Document the NULs problem.
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index ae5cc972..bebfc877 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -735,10 +735,10 @@ Specifying `kpop' sets POP3 protocol over port 1109 with Kerberos V4 authentication. These defaults may be overridden by later options. .PP You can use the noise keywords `and', `with', -`has', `wants', and `options' anywhere in an entry to make +\&`has', `wants', and `options' anywhere in an entry to make it resemble English. They're ignored, but but can make entries much easier to read at a glance. The punctuation characters ':', ';' and -',' are also ignored. +\&',' are also ignored. .PP The words `here' and `there' have useful English-like significance. Normally `user eric is esr' would mean that @@ -1070,6 +1070,9 @@ The RFC822 parser used in multidrop mode chokes on some @-addresses that are technically legal but bizarre. Strange uses of quoting and embedded comments are likely to confuse it. .PP +Retrieval using IMAP will hang if a message has embedded NUL +characters. (This will be fixed in a future release.) +.PP Use of any of the supported protocols other than APOP, KPOP, or ETRN requires that the program send unencrypted passwords over the TCP/IP connection to the mailserver. This creates a risk that name/password pairs |