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@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ fetchmail-4.6.2 (): * Time out server open requests like we do reads. This protects against buggy TCP/IP configurations that hang forever on a bad open. -* The '--limit' option can now be used with daemon mode. -* Implementation of a warning procedure to notify a user that some messages - are being skipped on the mail server; the user get notified by an E-Mail - that mentions all the messages being skipped (including their size). - (Implementation is thanks to Marc Jauvin). -* A -w/--warnings parameter can be set on the command line to specify at - what interval size warnings are sent to the user (default = 3600 sec). +* The '--limit' option can now be used with daemon mode. The user is notfied + that some messages are being skipped on the mail server; the user get + notified by email that mentions all the messages being skipped (including + their size). A -w/--warnings per-user option specifies at what intervals + size warnings are sent to the user (default = 3600 sec). +* Added FAQ item M7 on diagnosing failures to extract envelope addresses + from sendmail trace headers. There are 255 people on fetchmail-friends and 293 on fetchmail-announce. diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 68dc430c..3d5bb89e 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -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: 1998/10/12 16:01:54 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/10/16 14:00:02 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ IP address?</a><br> <a href="#M4">M4. My multidrop fetchmail seems to be having DNS problems.</a><br> <a href="#M5">M5. I'm seeing long DNS delays before each message is processed.</a><br> <a href="#M6">M6. How do I get multidrop mode to work with majordomo?</a> +<a href="#M7">M7. Multidrop mode isn't parsing envelope addresses from +my Received headers as it should.</a> <h1>Mangled mail:</h1> @@ -1840,6 +1842,43 @@ inside pop3 server with fetchmail and sendmail 8.83<P> </BLOCKQUOTE> <hr> +<h2><a href="M7">M7. Multidrop mode isn't parsing envelope addresses from +my Received headers as it should.</a></h2> + +It may happen that you're getting what appear to be well-formed +sendmail Received headers, but fetchmail can't seem to extract an +envelope address from them. There can be a couple of reasons for +this.<P> + +<h3>Spurious Received lines need to be skipped:</h3> + +First, fetchmail might be looking at the wrong Received header. +Normally it looks only on the first one it sees, on the theory that +that one was last added and is going to be the one containing your +mailserver's theory of who the message was addressed to.<P> + +Some (unusual) mailserver configurations will generate extra Received +lines which you need to skip. To arrange this, use the optional +skip prefix argument of the `envelope' option; you may need to say +something like `<code>envelope 1 Received</code>' or `<code>envelope 2 +Received</code>'. + +<h3>The `by' clause doesn't contain a mailserver alias:</h3> + +When fetchmail parses a Received line that looks like + +<pre> +Received: from send103.yahoomail.com (send103.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.92]) + by iserv.ttns.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA10088 + for <ksturgeon@fbceg.org>; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:01:59 -0700 +</pre> + +it checks to see if `iserv.ttns.net' is a DNS alias of your mailserver +before accepting `ksturgeon@fbceg.org' as an envelope address. This +check might fail if your DNS were misconfigured, or if you were using `no dns' +and had failed to declare iserv.ttns.net as an alias of your server.<P> + +<hr> <h2><a name="X1">X1. Spurious blank lines are appearing in the headers of fetched mail.</a></h2> What's probably happening is that the POP/IMAP daemon on your @@ -2142,7 +2181,7 @@ 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: 1998/10/12 16:01:54 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/10/16 14:00:02 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |