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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 0a6d1225..f185720b 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: 1998/05/23 05:06:13 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/05/23 18:25:18 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -1768,24 +1768,22 @@ no effect on the contents of the logfile if it already exists).<P> <hr> <h2><a name="X5">X5. Using POP3, retrievals seems to be fetching too much!</a></h2> -This may happen in versions of fetchmail after 4.4.1, which use POP3's -TOP command rather than RETR in order to avoid marking the message -seen (leaving it unseen is helpful for later recovery if you lose your -connection in the middle of a retrieval).<P> +This may happen in versions of fetchmail after 4.4.1 and before 4.4.8. +Versions after 4.4.1 use POP3's TOP command rather than RETR, in order +to avoid marking the message seen (leaving it unseen is helpful for +later recovery if you lose your connection in the middle of a +retrieval).<P> -If your POP3 server fails to sanity-check TOP requests and clip them at -the next end-of-message, it will fetch the entire tail of the mailbox -starting with the current message. The qpopper 2.41 beta 1 server is -known to have this bug (though the qpopper 2.2 found on many Unixes -does not). It's been reported to me that the logic changed in 2.3.<P> +Versions of fetchmail from 4.4.2 through 4.4.7 had a bad interaction +with Eudora qpopper versions 2.3 and later. The TOP bounds check was +fooled by an overflow condition in the TOP argument. Decrementing the +TOP argument in 4.4.7 fixed this.<P> -To work around it, set the <code>fetchall</code> option. Under POP3 -only, this now has the side effect of forcing RETR use.<P> +Fix: Upgrade to a later version of fetchmail.<P> -(It is possible this tip is no longer necessary. At least one tester -has claimed that the bounds check works but was fooled by an overflow -condition in the TOP argument. Decrementing the argument in 4.4.7 may have -fixed this, in which case this FAQ item will soon go away.)<P> +Workaround: set the <code>fetchall</code> option. Under POP3 in these +fetchmail version only, this had the side effect of forcing RETR +use.<P> <hr> <h2><a name="O2">O2. Every time I get a POP or IMAP message the header @@ -1918,7 +1916,7 @@ 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: 1998/05/23 05:06:13 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/05/23 18:25:18 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |