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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2001-07-31 05:48:06 +0000
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<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Fetchmail Bugs and To-Do Items</H1>
-I try to respond to urgent bug reports in a timely way. But fetchmail
+<p>I try to respond to urgent bug reports in a timely way. But fetchmail
is now pretty mature and I have many other projects, so I don't
personally chase obscure or marginal problems. Help with any of these
-will be cheerfully accepted.<p>
+will be cheerfully accepted.
-Errors in RCPT TO responses aren't handled gracefully. This shows up
-if you enable FEATURE(delay_checks, friend) in sendmail, so that you
-can accept mail to postmaster from sites otherwise blocked by my
-access database. The effect of this feature is that the MAIL FROM:
-address is always accepted OK, and any rejection of the sender is
-delayed until the RCPT TO: part of the SMTP transaction. This includes
-rejects such as 553 for invalid sender address. In this configuration
-fetchmail cannot deliver mail with invalid sender addresses, so you'll
-get lots of bounce messages when some spammers hit your mailbox (a
-pair of bounces every time fetchmail runs; one to FETCHMAIL-DAEMON
-generated by sendmail when fetchmail's bounce to the spammer is
-rejected, and one postmaster notify for that bounce). The problem is
-that fetchmail only recognises the 553 response in reply to MAIL FROM:
-and not RCPT TO:, see the unused code near sink.c:690. A really
-correct fix would callling a modified version of handle_smtp_error
-that doesn't RSET the connection.
-
-Using LMTP alias with a local name that is not a full name fails horribly
+<p>Using LMTP alias with a local name that is not a full name fails horribly
(the LMTP port never gets stripped off the name).
-The UIDL code seems rather broken. It's a nasty swamp. Somebody who
+<p>The UIDL code seems rather broken. It's a nasty swamp. Somebody who
actually uses it should fix it -- every time I try I seem to make
-things worse....<p>
+things worse....
-POP3 can't presently distinguish a wedged or down server from an
+<p>POP3 can't presently distinguish a wedged or down server from an
authentication failure. Possible fix: after issuing a PASS
command. wait 300 (xx) seconds for a "-ERR" or a "+OK" . If nothing
comes back, retry at the next poll event and generate no errors. If we
-get an -ERR then log an authentication failure.<p>
+get an -ERR then log an authentication failure.
-SMTP authentication a la RFC 2554 ought to be supported. The Exim
+<p>SMTP authentication a la RFC 2554 ought to be supported. The Exim
reference has a
<a href="http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.10/doc/html/spec_33.html#SEC705">
-whole chapter on this topic</a>.<p>
+whole chapter on this topic</a>.
-It has been reported that multidrop name matching fails when the name
+<p>It has been reported that multidrop name matching fails when the name
to be matched contains a Latin-1 umlaut. Dollars to doughnuts this is
some kind of character sign-extension problem. Trouble is, it's very
likely in the BIND libraries. Someone should go in with a debugger
-and check this.<p>
+and check this.
-In the SSL support, add authentication of Certifying Authority (Is this
-a Certifying Authority we recognize?).<p>
+<p>In the SSL support, add authentication of Certifying Authority (Is this
+a Certifying Authority we recognize?).
-Laszlo Vecsey writes: "I believe qmail uses a technique of writing
+<p>Laszlo Vecsey writes: "I believe qmail uses a technique of writing
temporary files to nfs, and then moving them into place to ensure that
they're written. Actually a hardlink is made to the temporary file and
the destination name in a new directory, then the first one is
unlinked.. maybe a combination of this will help with the fetchmail
-lock file."<p>
+lock file."
-Move everything to using service strings rather that port numbers, so we
+<p>Move everything to using service strings rather that port numbers, so we
can get rid of ENABLE_INET6 everywhere but in SockOpen (this will get
-rid of the kluge in rcfile_y.y).<p>
+rid of the kluge in rcfile_y.y).
-The <a
+<p>The <a
href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=fetchmail&archive=no">Debian
-bug-tracking page for fetchmail</a> lists other bug reports.<p>
+bug-tracking page for fetchmail</a> lists other bug reports.
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