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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index d6ecf8fe..e670b689 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: 2002/04/08 23:46:55 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2002/05/24 06:47:21 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ IP address?</a><br> <a href="#B1">B1. Make coughs and dies when building on FreeBSD.</a><br> <a href="#B2">B2. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.</a><br> <a href="#B3">B3. I get link failures when I try to build fetchmail.</a><br> +<a href="#B4">B4. I get build failures in the intl directory.</a><br> <h1>Fetchmail configuration file grammar questions:</h1> @@ -284,7 +285,7 @@ tweaking your configuration. It is very important that the transcript include your POP/IMAP server's greeting line, so I can identify it in case of server problems. This transcript will not reveal your passwords, which are specially masked -out precisely so the transcript can be passed around. +out precisely so transcripts can be passed around. <p>If you upgraded your fetchmail and something broke, you should include session transcripts with -v -v of both the working and failing @@ -732,6 +733,14 @@ reconfigure with <tt>configure --with-included-gettext</tt>. This is due to some brain-damage in the GNU internationalization libraries. <hr> +<h2><a name="B4">B4. I get build failures in the intl directory.</a></h2> + +<p>Reconfigure with <tt>--disable-nls</tt> and recompile. + +<p>GNU gettext is an overengineered, fragile pile of crap. I have +teetered on the brink of removing support for it entirely several times. + +<hr> <h2><a name="F1">F1. Why does my old .fetchmailrc file no longer work?</a></h2> <h3>If your file predates 5.8.9</h3> @@ -1820,7 +1829,7 @@ doing standard IMAP authentication, fetchmail should ssh to the server and run imapd, using the more secure ssh authentication (as well as getting ssh's end-to-end encryption). Most IMAP daemons will detect that they've been called from the command line and assume the -connection is peauthenticated. +connection is preauthenticated. <p>POP3 daemons aren't quite as smart. They won't know they are preauthenticated in this mode, so you'll actually have to ship your @@ -3025,7 +3034,7 @@ date from the last Received header.<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: 2002/04/08 23:46:55 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2002/05/24 06:47:21 $ </table> <ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |