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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 010275c1..0a6d1225 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: 1998/05/16 19:17:42 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/05/23 05:06:13 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -271,12 +271,13 @@ 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 Cathedral -and the Bazaar</a> which was first presented at Linux Kongress '97 in -Bavaria and very well received there. It was also given at Atlanta -Linux Expo, Linux Pro '97 in Warsaw, and the first Perl Conference, -and will be an invited presentation at Usenix and UniForum '98. The -folks at Netscape tell me it helped them decide to <a +href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral.html">The +Cathedral and the Bazaar</a> which was first presented at Linux +Kongress '97 in Bavaria and very well received there. It was also +given at Atlanta Linux Expo, Linux Pro '97 in Warsaw, and the first +Perl Conference, at UniForum '98, and will be the basis of an invited +presentation at Usenix '98. The folks at Netscape tell me it helped +them decide to <a href="http://www.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease558.html"> give away the source for Netscape Communicator</a>).<p> @@ -299,8 +300,8 @@ server mentioned in <a href="#D2">D2</a>). An increasing minority also feature IMAP (you can detect IMAP support by running fetchmail in AUTO mode).<P> -If you have the option, we recommend using or installing IMAP4; it has -the best facilities for tracking message "seen" states. It also +If you have the option, we recommend using or installing IMAP4rev1; it has +the best facilities for tracking message `seen' states. It also recovers from interrupted connections more gracefully than POP3, and enables some significant performance optimizations.<P> @@ -379,7 +380,7 @@ and your fetchmail was built with OPIE support compiled in (see the distribution INSTALL file), fetchmail will detect it also. When using OTP, you will specify a password but it will not be sent en clair.<P> -Sadly, there is at present (February 1998) no OTP or APOP-like +Sadly, there is at present (May 1998) no OTP or APOP-like facility generally available on IMAP servers. However, there do exist patches which will OTP-enable the University of Washington IMAP daemon, version 4.1-BETA.<P> @@ -1089,7 +1090,7 @@ We have one report that when processing multiple messages from a single fetchmail session, smail sometimes delivers them in an order other than received-date order. This can be annoying because it scrambles conversational threads. This is not fetchmail's problem, -it is an smail "feature" and has been reported to the maintainers +it is an smail `feature' and has been reported to the maintainers as a bug.<P> Very recent smail versions require an <code>-smtp_hello_verify</code> @@ -1111,7 +1112,8 @@ using sendmail instead.<P> <h2><a name="T6">T6. How can I use fetchmail with Lotus Notes?</a></h2><p> The Lotus Notes SMTP gateway tries to deduce when it should convert \n -to \r\n, but its rules are not intuitive. Use `forcecr'.<P> +to \r\n, but its rules are not the intuitive and correct-for-RFC822 +ones. Use `forcecr'.<P> <hr> <h2><a name="T7">T7. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft Exchange?</a></h2><p> @@ -1426,7 +1428,7 @@ Some servers (such as Microsoft's NTMail) are mis-designed to restore the entire queue, including messages you have deleted. If you have one of these and it flakes out on you a lot, try setting a small <code>--fetchlimit</code> value. This will result in more IP connects -to the server but will mean it actually executes changes to the queue +to the server, but will mean it actually executes changes to the queue more often.<P> Qualcomm's qpopper, used at many BSD Unix sites, is better behaved. @@ -1446,14 +1448,15 @@ Fetchmail only sends a delete mail request to the server when either listener, or (b) it gets an error 571 (the spam-filter error) from the listener. No interrupt can cause it to lose mail.<p> -However, POP3 has a design problem in that its servers mark a message -`seen' as soon as the fetch command to get it is sent down. If for -some reason the message isn't actually delivered (you take a line hit -during the download, or your port 25 listener can't find enough free -disk space, or you interrupt the delivery in mid-message) that `seen' -message can lurk invisibly in your server mailbox forever.<p> +However, IMAP2bis has a design problem in that its normal fetch +command marks a message `seen' as soon as the fetch command to get it +is sent down. If for some reason the message isn't actually delivered +(you take a line hit during the download, or your port 25 listener +can't find enough free disk space, or you interrupt the delivery in +mid-message) that `seen' message can lurk invisibly in your server +mailbox forever.<p> -Workaround: add the `<CODE>fetchall</CODE>' keyword to your POP3 fetch options.<p> +Workaround: add the `<CODE>fetchall</CODE>' keyword to your fetch options.<p> Solution: switch to an <a href="http://www.imap.org">IMAP</a> server.<p> @@ -1781,8 +1784,8 @@ only, this now has the side effect of forcing RETR use.<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 may have -fixed this.)<P> +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> <hr> <h2><a name="O2">O2. Every time I get a POP or IMAP message the header @@ -1836,8 +1839,8 @@ with a long expunge interval.<P> According to the POP3 RFCs, deletes aren't actually performed until you issue the end-of-session QUIT command. Fetchmail cannot fix this, -it takes cooperation from the. server. There are two possible -remedies:<P> +because doing it right takes cooperation from the server. There are +two possible remedies:<P> One is to switch to qpopper (the free POP3 server from Qualcomm, the Eudora people). The qpopper software violates the POP3 RFCs by @@ -1915,7 +1918,7 @@ 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: 1998/05/16 19:17:42 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/05/23 05:06:13 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |