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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index f871b125..5abde57d 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: 2000/06/28 08:04:30 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/06/28 09:06:35 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -2826,6 +2826,17 @@ over and over?</h2> First, check to see that you haven't enabled the <cite>keep</cite> and <cite>fetchall</cite> option. If you have, turn <cite>keep</cite> off.<p> +There are various forms of lossage involving the POP3 UIDL feature +that can lead to all your old messages being seen again after a line +drop. I have given up trying to fix these, as the UIDL code breaks +worse every time I touch it. The problem is fundamental; maintaining +and garbage-collecting the right kind of client-side state is just +hard. Whoever put UIDLs in RFC1725 and removed LAST should be hung +up by his thumbs and whipped with scorpions. The right answers are +either (a) live with the occasional breakage, (b) switch to IMAP4, +or (c) fix the code yourself and send me a patch. Unless you choose +(c), I don't want to hear about it.<p> + This can also happen when some other mail client is logged in to your mail server, if it uses a simple exclusive-locking scheme (and many, especially most POP3 servers, do exactly that). Your fetchmail is @@ -2867,7 +2878,7 @@ install Linux on your server...<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: 2000/06/28 08:04:30 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/06/28 09:06:35 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 1809acad..e1daa2b9 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -2012,6 +2012,10 @@ UIDs will not work; the UIDL-handling code will core-dump while trying to read in what it sees as malformed .fetchids lines, typically on the second poll after startup. .PP +The UIDL code is generally flaky and tends to lose its state on errors +and line drops (so that old messages are re-seen). If this happens to +you, switch to IMAP4. +.PP Send comments, bug reports, gripes, and the like to the fetchmail-friends list <fetchmail-friends@ccil.org>. An HTML FAQ is available at the fetchmail home page; surf to |