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<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: 1997/10/27 13:41:00 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/11/05 04:56:51 $
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<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
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<a href="#T6">T6. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft Exchange?</a><br>
<a href="#T7">T7. How can I use fetchmail with Compuserve RPA?</a><br>
<a href="#T8">T8. How can I use fetchmail with HP OpenMail?</a><br>
+<a href="#T9">T9. How can I use fetchmail with PMDF under VMS?</a><br>
<h1>Runtime fatal errors:</h1>
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POP server that isn't brain-dead.<P>
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+<h2><a name="#T9">T9. How can I use fetchmail with PMDF under VMS?</a></h2>
+
+You may not be able to. PMDF5.1-9.1 under OpenVMS 6.1 barfs on perfectly
+innocuous FETCH sequences like
+
+<pre>
+ fetchmail: IMAP> a0050 FETCH 1:11 RFC822.SIZE
+ fetchmail: IMAP< a0050 BAD Bogus sequence in FETCH
+</pre>
+
+We haven't figured out why yet, but strongly suspect that PMDF is just
+plain broken. Maybe you should move your mail service to a Unix box?<p>
+
+<hr>
<h2><a name="R1">R1. Fetchmail isn't working, and -v shows `SMTP connect failed' messages.</a></h2>
Fetchmail itself is probably working, but your SMTP port 25 listener
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<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: 1997/10/27 13:41:00 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/11/05 04:56:51 $
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<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>