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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 19102efe..9318b607 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ <BODY> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> -$Id: fetchmail-FAQ.html,v 1.6 1997/04/17 14:26:56 esr Exp $<p> +$Id: fetchmail-FAQ.html,v 1.7 1997/04/17 15:05:22 esr Exp $<p> -(Added <a href="http:#C6">C6</a> on working with qmail and -<a href="http:#C7">C7</a> on managing fetchmail in the presence of -multiple login sessions.)<p> +(Added <a href="#B3">B3</a> on broken makes, <a href="http:#C6">C6</a> +on working with qmail and <a href="http:#C7">C7</a> on managing +fetchmail in the presence of multiple login sessions.)<p> Before reporting any bug, please read <a href="#G3">G3</a> for advice on how to include diagnostic information that will get your bug fixed @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ fetchmail-friends-request@thyrsus.com</a>. <p> <a href="#B1">B1. My C compiler libraries don't seem to have atexit(3).</a><br> <a href="#B2">B2. Building fetchmail fails with compiler errors in error.c.</a><br> +<a href="#B3">B3. Make doesn't know how to build rcfile_y.h or rcfile_l.h.</a><br> <h1>Fetchmail configuration file grammar questions:</h1> @@ -207,6 +208,19 @@ NEXTSTEP 3.3. All but the HP-UX problem seems to have abated after 3.8. You may have to turn off HAVE_VSYSLOG manually.<p> <hr> +<h2><a name="B3">B3. Make doesn't know how to build rcfile_y.h or rcfile_l.h.</a></h2> + +You're probably using HP-UX or AIX. There are in fact productions in +the Makefile that describle how to make both (search for the string +"Special dependencies"), but your make is not interpreting them +correctly. Several attempts to fix this have failed. It appears these +makes are deficient or broken.<p> + +The solution: install GNU make. Sources are available at the FSF archive +site, <a href="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu"> +ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu</a>.<p> + +<hr> <h2><a name="F1">F1. Why does my .fetchmailrc from 2.8 or earlier no longer work?</a></h2> The `<tt>interface</tt>', `<tt>monitor</tt>' and @@ -584,15 +598,15 @@ it will add a prefix to all mail addresses for this site. This results in mail sent to 'username@userhost.userdom.dom.com' having a 'Delivered-To:' line of the form:<p> -<listing> +<pre> Delivered-To: mbox-userstr-username@userhost.userdom.dom.com -</listing> +</pre> A single host maildrop will be slightly simpler: -<listing> +<pre> Delivered-To: mbox-userstr-username@userhost.dom.com -</listing> +</pre> The ISP can make the 'mbox-userstr-' prefix anything they choose but a string matching the user host name is likely.<p> @@ -614,9 +628,9 @@ setting up an alias within the qmail MTA on each local machine. Simply create a dot-qmail file called '.qmail-mbox-userstr-default' in the alias directory (normally /var/qmail/alias) with the contents:<p> -<listing> +<pre> | ../bin/qmail-inject -a -f"$SENDER" "${LOCAL#mbox-userstr-}@$HOST}" -</listing> +</pre> Note this <em>does</em> require a modern /bin/sh.<p> |