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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 83798efa..6eb9b6ff 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: 2002/06/06 15:28:49 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2002/06/21 07:48:16 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -29,18 +29,19 @@ this FAQ list, mail it to fetchmail's maintainer, Eric S. Raymond, at <a href="#G2">G2. Where do I find the latest FAQ and fetchmail sources?</a><br> <a href="#G3">G3. I think I've found a bug. Will you fix it?</a><br> <a href="#G4">G4. I have this idea for a neat feature. Will you add it?</a><br> -<a href="#G5">G5. Is there a mailing list for exchanging tips?</a><br> -<a href="#G6">G6. So, what's this I hear about a fetchmail paper?</a><br> -<a href="#G7">G7. What is the best server to use with fetchmail?</a><br> -<a href="#G8">G8. What is the best mail program to use with fetchmail?</a><br> -<a href="#G9">G9. How can I avoid sending my password en clair?</a><br> -<a href="#G10">G10. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic +<a href="#G5">G5. I want to make fetchmail behave like Outlook Express.</a><br> +<a href="#G6">G6. Is there a mailing list for exchanging tips?</a><br> +<a href="#G7">G7. So, what's this I hear about a fetchmail paper?</a><br> +<a href="#G8">G8. What is the best server to use with fetchmail?</a><br> +<a href="#G9">G9. What is the best mail program to use with fetchmail?</a><br> +<a href="#G10">G10. How can I avoid sending my password en clair?</a><br> +<a href="#G11">G11. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic IP address?</a><br> -<a href="#G11">G11. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?</a><br> -<a href="#G12">G12. Is any special configuration needed to <em>send</em> mail?</a><br> -<a href="#G13">G13. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?</a><br> -<a href="#G14">G14. Is there a way in fetchmail to support disconnected IMAP mode?</a><br> -<a href="#G15">G15. How will fetchmail perform under heavy loads?</a><br> +<a href="#G12">G12. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?</a><br> +<a href="#G13">G13. Is any special configuration needed to <em>send</em> mail?</a><br> +<a href="#G14">G14. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?</a><br> +<a href="#G15">G15. Is there a way in fetchmail to support disconnected IMAP mode?</a><br> +<a href="#G16">G16. How will fetchmail perform under heavy loads?</a><br> <h1>Build-time problems:</h1> @@ -348,7 +349,22 @@ problem that can't be handled anywhere but fetchmail, lay it on me. I'm very accommodating about good ideas.</p> <hr> -<h2><a name="G5">G5. Is there a mailing list for exchanging tips?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="G5">G5. I want to make fetchmail behave like Outlook Express.</a></h2> + +<p>The second-most-requested feature for fetchmail, after +content-based filtering, is the ability to have it remove messages +from a maildrop after N days, typically to be used with the +<code>keep</code> option as a sort of poor man's newsgroup facility. +Microsoft's Outlook Express supports this.</p> + +<p>This feature won't be added either. Repeat after me: fetchmail's +job is transport, not policy. If you want this, write a Perl or +Python script, to be run from a cron job, that deletes old messages +off your maildrop. Send it to me and I'll put it in the contrib +directory.</p> + +<hr> +<h2><a name="G6">G6. Is there a mailing list for exchanging tips?</a></h2> <p>There is a fetchmail-friends list (fetchmail-friends@lists.ccil.org) for people who want to discuss fixes @@ -359,7 +375,7 @@ There is also an announcements-only list, fetchmail-announce@lists.ccil.org, which you can sign up for at <a href="http://lists.ccil.org/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-announce">http://lists.ccil.org/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-announce</a>.</p> <hr> -<h2><a name="G6">G6. So, what's this I hear about a fetchmail paper?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="G7">G7. So, what's this I hear about a fetchmail paper?</a></h2> <p>The fetchmail development was also a sociological experiment, an extended test to see if my theory about the critical features of the @@ -380,7 +396,7 @@ away the source for Netscape Communicator</a>.</p> on the Web with a search for that title.</p> <hr> -<h2><a name="G7">G7. What is the best server to use with fetchmail?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="G8">G8. What is the best server to use with fetchmail?</a></h2> <p>The short answer: IMAP 2000 running over Unix.</p> @@ -426,7 +442,7 @@ The 2.5.2 version appears to restore the open-source license of previous versions.</p> <hr> -<h2><a name="G8">G8. What is the best mail program to use with fetchmail?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="G9">G9. What is the best mail program to use with fetchmail?</a></h2> <p>Fetchmail will work with all popular <a href="#T1">mail transport programs</a>. It also doesn't care which user agent you use, and user @@ -446,7 +462,7 @@ won't need its built-in POP3 support, though; most of the mutt developers will cheerfully admit that fetchmail's is better :-).</p> <hr> -<h2><a name="G9">G9. How can I avoid sending my password en clair?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="G10">G10. How can I avoid sending my password en clair?</a></h2> <p>Depending on what your mail server you are talking to, this ranges from trivial to impossible. It may even be next to useless.</p> @@ -541,7 +557,7 @@ because this is how Craig gets his mail ;-)</p> end-to-end encryption if you have an SSL-enabled mailserver.</p> <hr> -<h2><a name="G10">G10. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic IP address?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="G11">G11. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic IP address?</a></h2> <p>Yes. In order to avoid giving indigestion to certain picky MTAs (notably <a href="#T3">exim</a>), fetchmail always makes the RCPT TO @@ -614,7 +630,7 @@ See the <a href="http://www.lege.com/sendmail-FAQ.txt">sendmail FAQ</a> for more details.</p> <hr> -<h2><a name="G11">G11. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="G12">G12. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?</a></h2> <p>No. You can use fetchmail with SOCKS, the standard tool for indirecting TCP/IP through a firewall. You can find out about SOCKS, @@ -626,7 +642,7 @@ site</a>.</p> href="#K1">K1</a></p> <hr> -<h2><a name="G12">G12. Is any special configuration needed to <em>send</em> mail?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="G13">G13. Is any special configuration needed to <em>send</em> mail?</a></h2> <p>A user asks: but how do we send mail out to the POP3 server? Do I need to implement another tool or will fetchmail do this too?</p> @@ -644,7 +660,7 @@ automatically dial out when your kernel is called to open a TCP/IP connection, this will ensure that the mail gets out.</p> <hr> -<h2><a name="G13">G13. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="G14">G14. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?</a></h2> <p>Fetchmail is fully Y2K-compliant.</p> @@ -654,14 +670,14 @@ for anything but log entry generation. Anyway, if you aren't running on a 64-bit machine by then, you'll deserve to lose.</p> <hr> -<h2><a name="G14">G14. Is there a way in fetchmail to support disconnected IMAP mode?</a></H2> +<h2><a name="G15">G15. Is there a way in fetchmail to support disconnected IMAP mode?</a></H2> <p>No. Fetchmail is a mail transport agent, best understood as a protocol gateway between POP3/IMAP servers and SMTP. Disconnected operation requires an elaborate interactive client. It's a very different problem.</p> <hr> -<h2><a name="G15">G15. How will fetchmail perform under heavy loads?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="G16">G16. How will fetchmail perform under heavy loads?</a></h2> <p>Fetchmail streams message bodies line-by-line; the most core it ever requires per message is enough memory to hold the RFC822 header, and @@ -1378,7 +1394,7 @@ ones. Use `forcecr'.</p> Qualcomm's qpopper is probably the best-of-breed among POP3 servers, and is very widely deployed. Nevertheless, it has some problems which -fetchmail exposes. We recommend using <a href="#G7">IMAP</a> instead if at +fetchmail exposes. We recommend using <a href="#G8">IMAP</a> instead if at all possible. If you must talk to qpopper, here are some problems to be aware of:</p> @@ -3065,7 +3081,7 @@ the received 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: 2002/06/06 15:28:49 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2002/06/21 07:48:16 $ </table> <ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |