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@@ -196,8 +196,7 @@ mangled.</a><br/>
<a href="#X7">X7. Some mail attachments are hanging
fetchmail.</a><br/>
<a href="#X8">X8. A spurious ) is being appended to my
-messages.</a><br/>
-
+messages.</a><br/>
<h1>Other problems:</h1>
@@ -221,7 +220,9 @@ working?</a><br/>
messages over and over?</a><br/>
<a href="#O10">O10. Why is the received date on all my messages the
same?</a><br/>
-
+<a href="#O11">O11. I keep getting messages that say "Repoll
+immediately" in my logs.</a><br/>
+
<h1>Answers:</h1>
@@ -1918,7 +1919,8 @@ Geocities are lame, you should boycott them anyway.</p>
<h2><a id="S8" name="S8">S8. How can I use fetchmail with Hotmail?</a></h2>
<p>You can't, yet. But <a
-href="http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/gotmail.php">gotmail</a> might
+href="http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/gotmail.php">gotmail</a> or
+<a href='http://people.freenet.de/courierdave/'>HotWayDaemon</a> might
be what you need.</p>
<hr/>
@@ -3419,6 +3421,17 @@ messages the same?</a></h2>
<p>This is a design choice in your MTA, not fetchmail. It's taking
the received date from the last Received header.</p>
+<hr />
+<a name="#O11">O11. I keep getting messages that say "Repoll
+immediately" in my logs.</a><br/>
+
+<p>This is your server barfing on the CAPA probe that fetchmail sends.</p>
+If you run fetchmail in daemon mode (say "set daemon 600"), you will
+get the message only once per run.</p>
+
+<p>If you set an authentication method explicitly (say, with
+<code>auth password</code>), you will never get the message.</p>
+
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