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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: 1998/03/24 00:04:29 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/04/04 19:43:00 $
</table>
<HR>
<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -1114,11 +1114,17 @@ if you see the string "+RPA" after the version ID you're good to go,
otherwise you'll have to build your own from sources (see the INSTALL
file in the source distribution for directions).<P>
-Give your RPA pass-phrase as your password. An RPA-enabled fetchmail
-will automatically check for csi.com in the POP server's greeting
-line. If that's found, it will query the server to see if it is
-RPA-capable, and if so do an RPA transaction rather than a plain-text
-password handshake.<P>
+Give your RPA pass-phrase in lower case as your password. Add
+`@compuserve.com' to your user ID so that it looks like `user
+&lt;UserID&gt;@compuserve.com', where &lt;UserID&gt; can be either
+your numerical userID or your E-mail nickname. An RPA-enabled
+fetchmail will automatically check for csi.com in the POP server's
+greeting line. If that's found, it will query the server to see if it
+is RPA-capable, and if so do an RPA transaction rather than a
+plain-text password handshake.<P>
+
+<strong>Warning</strong> the verbose output of Fetchmail will show
+your pass-phrase in Unicode!<P>
<hr>
<h2><a name="T9">T9. How can I use fetchmail with HP OpenMail?</a></h2>
@@ -1846,7 +1852,7 @@ 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: 1998/03/24 00:04:29 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/04/04 19:43:00 $
</table>
<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>