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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index aea4bf5b..899ea8e5 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: 1998/12/14 15:10:26 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/16 16:54:19 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ IP address?</a><br> <h1>Disappearing mail</h1> <a href="#D1">D1. I think I've set up fetchmail correctly, but I'm not getting any mail.</a><br> -<a href="#D2">D2. All my mail seems to disappear after an interrupt.</a><br> +<a href="#D2">D2. All my mail seems to disappear after a dropped connection.</a><br> <a href="#D3">D3. Mail that was being fetched when I interrupted my fetchmail seems to have been vanished.</a></br> <h1>Multidrop-mode problems:</h1> @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ It is helpful if you include your .fetchmailrc file, but not necessary unless your symptom seems to involve an error in configuration parsing.<p> If fetchmail seems to run and fetch mail, but the headers look mangled -(that is headers are missing, or blank lines are inserted in the +(that is, headers are missing or blank lines are inserted in the headers) then read the FAQ items in section <a href="#X1">X</a> before submitting a bug report. Pay special attention to the item on <a href="#generic_mangling">diagnosing mail mangling</a>. There are @@ -284,9 +284,9 @@ in the Subject line unsubscribes you, and "help" returns general list help) <p> <hr> <h2><a name="G6">G6. So, what's this I hear about a fetchmail paper?</a></h2> -Now it can be told! The fetchmail development was also a sociological -experiment, an extended test to see if my theory about the critical -features of the Linux development model is correct.<p> +The fetchmail development was also a sociological experiment, an +extended test to see if my theory about the critical features of the +Linux development model is correct.<p> The experiment was a success. I wrote a paper about it titled <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral.html">The @@ -449,10 +449,11 @@ his mail ;-)<P> Yes. In order to avoid giving indigestion to certain picky MTAs (notably <a href="#T3">exim</a>), fetchmail always makes the RCPT TO address it feeds the MTA a fully qualified one with a hostname part. -Normally it does this by appending @ and your client machine's -hostname.<P> +Normally it does this by appending @ and "localhost", but when you are +using Kerberos or ETRN mode it will append @ and your machine's +fully-qualified domain name (FQDN).<P> -This, however, can create problems when fetchmail is running in daemon +Appending the FQDN can create problems when fetchmail is running in daemon mode and outlasts the dynamic IP address assignment your client machine had when it started up.<P> @@ -1664,7 +1665,7 @@ Or you may not be connecting to the SMTP listener. Run fetchmail -v and see <a href="#R1">R1</a>.<p> <hr> -<h2><a name="D2">D2. All my mail seems to disappear after an interrupt.</a></h2> +<h2><a name="D2">D2. All my mail seems to disappear after a dropped connection.</a></h2> One POP3 daemon used in the Berkeley Unix world that reports itself as POP3 version 1.004 actually throws the queue away. 1.005 fixed that. @@ -1716,11 +1717,15 @@ Solution: switch to an <a href="http://www.imap.org">IMAP4</a> server.<p> <h2><a name="M1">M1. I've declared local names, but all my multidrop mail is going to root anyway.</a></h2> -Somehow your fetchmail is never matching the hostname part of -recipient names to the name of the mailserver machine. This probably -means it is unable to recognize hostname parts as being DNS names of -the mailserver, and indicates some kind of DNS configuration -problem either on the server or your client machine. <p> +Somehow your fetchmail is never recognizing the hostname part of +recipient names it parses out of To/Cc/envelope-header lines as +matching the name of the mailserver machine. To check this, run +fetchmail in foreground with -v -v on. You will probably see a lot of +messages with the format ``line rejected, %s is not an alias of the +mailserver'' or ``no address matches; forwarding to %s.'' <p> + +These errors usually indicate some kind of DNS configuration problem +either on the server or your client machine. <p> The easiest workaround is to add a `<CODE>via</CODE>' option (if necessary) and add enough aka declarations to cover all of your @@ -2207,7 +2212,7 @@ 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: 1998/12/14 15:10:26 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/16 16:54:19 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |