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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 | ||||
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ every user entry in a multi-user poll declaration. In multidrop mode without an applicable localdomain, addresses of the form "foo"@bar.com are not parsed correctly, even though they are -technically RFC822 legal. +technically RFC822 legal. The general problem is mentioned on the man page. Rich Kulawiec <rsk@itw.com> writes: @@ -28,11 +28,13 @@ having trouble figuring why it wouldn't just break *all* the time.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -pl 3.9.2 (): +pl 3.9.2 (Wed Apr 23 14:07:03 EDT 1997): * Fixed a glitch in the Makefile yacc and lex productions * Add logic for X-Fetchmail-Warning emission of \r\n to pacify qmail. * Yet another try at getting error.c to play nice with AIX. +There are 223 people on the fetchmail-friends list. + pl 3.9.1 (Thu Apr 17 11:37:14 EDT 1997): * Hypertext FAQ added to distribution manifest. * RPM builder production fixed. diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 4abc7ad9..8fed9e09 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -1034,8 +1034,8 @@ bit.) Run control files in the .poprc format will trigger a warning. To eliminate this warning, add the `username' keyword before your first user entry per server (it is already required before second and subsequent -user entries per server. In some future version the `username' keyword -will be required. +user entries per server). In some future version the `username' keyword +will always be required in server entries declaring multiple users. .SH FILES .TP 5 @@ -1047,9 +1047,9 @@ default location of file associating hosts with last message IDs seen (used only with newer RFC1725-compliant POP3 servers supporting the UIDL command). .TP 5 -~/.netrc your FTP run control file, which (if present) will be -searched for passwords as a last resort before prompting for one -interactively. +~/.netrc +your FTP run control file, which (if present) will be searched for +passwords as a last resort before prompting for one interactively. .TP 5 ~/.fetchmail lock file to help prevent concurrent runs (non-root mode). @@ -1065,6 +1065,10 @@ correctly set, or that \fBgetpwuid\fR(3) be able to retrieve a password entry from your user ID. .SH BUGS AND KNOWN PROBLEMS +The RFC822 parser used in multidrop mode chokes on some @-addresses that +are technically legal but bizarre. Strange uses of quoting and +embedded comments are likely to confuse it. +.PP Use of any of the supported protocols other than APOP, KPOP, or ETRN requires that the program send unencrypted passwords over the TCP/IP connection to the mailserver. This creates a risk that name/password pairs |