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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1999-09-23 12:42:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1999-09-23 12:42:38 +0000 |
| commit | 7db729877dd255029ce846414ddab872ac8dc146 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b25a47b5823658788bf2990688802eb5f9d9053 /fetchmailconf | |
| parent | 33d9765dd84fd3846b833202aa495c7725e88662 (diff) | |
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Workaround for GroupWise.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=2586
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diff --git a/fetchmailconf b/fetchmailconf index d64910e9..a02b5337 100755 --- a/fetchmailconf +++ b/fetchmailconf @@ -1127,11 +1127,15 @@ this server. """ if string.find(greetline, "GroupWise") > 0: warnings = warnings + """ -You appear to be using the Novell GroupWise IMAP server. This server would -be better named GroupFoolish; according to the designer of IMAP it is unusably -broken. The specific problem is that it doesn't include a required content -length in its BODY[TEXT] response, so fetchmail can't know how much content -to fetch. +The Novell GroupWise IMAP server would be better named GroupFoolish; +it is (according to the designer of IMAP) unusably broken. Among +other things, it doesn't include a required content length in its +BODY[TEXT] response.<p> + +Fetchmail works around this problem, but we strongly recommend voting +with your dollars for a server that isn't brain-dead. If you stick +with code as shoddy as GroupWise seems to be, you will probably pay +for it with other problems.<p> """ |