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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 8eb9785b..c51f1083 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: 1998/01/18 06:33:21 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/01/22 23:33:42 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -260,11 +260,15 @@ Now it can be told! The fetchmail development was also a sociological 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.ccil.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 and the first Perl Conference.<p> +The experiment was a success. I wrote a paper about it titled <a +href="http://www.ccil.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.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease558.html"> give +away the source for Netscape Communicator</a>).<p> If you're reading a non-HTML dump of this FAQ, you can find the paper on the Web with a search for that title.<p> @@ -355,7 +359,7 @@ AUTH=KERBEROS_V4 in the CAPABILITY response.<P> If you are fetching mail from a CompuServe POP3 account, you can use their RPA authentication (which works much like APOP). See <a -href="#T7">T7</a> for details.<P>. +href="#T7">T7</a> for details.<P> Your POP3 server may have the RFC1938 OTP capability to use one-time passwords. To check this, look for the string "otp-" in the greeting @@ -402,7 +406,7 @@ make: *** [fetchmail] Error 1 </pre> then you must add "-lresolv" to the LOADLIBS line in your Makefile -since you have installed the `bind' package.<P> +once you have installed the `bind' package.<P> <hr> <h2><a name="F1">F1. Why does my old .fetchmailrc file no longer work?</a></h2> @@ -555,16 +559,16 @@ already required before second and subsequent user entries per server.<p> In some future version the `<CODE>username</CODE>' keyword will be required.<p> <hr> -<a name="F5">F5. I'm getting a `parse error' message I don't understand.</a><h2> +<h2><a name="F5">F5. I'm getting a `parse error' message I don't understand.</a></h2> The most common cause of mysterious parse errors is putting a server option after a user option. Check the manual page; you'll probably find that by moving one or more options closer to the `poll' keyword -you can eliminate the problem. +you can eliminate the problem.<p> -Yes, I know these ordering restrictions are a hard to understand. +Yes, I know these ordering restrictions are hard to understand. Unfortunately, they're necessary in order to allow the `defaults' -feature to work. +feature to work.<P> <hr> <h2><a name="C1">C1. Why do I need a .fetchmailrc when running as root on my own machine?</a></h2> @@ -880,12 +884,12 @@ in sendmail's configuration, you can leave the <code>rewrite</code> option off.<P> Günther Leber reports that Digital Unix sendmails won't work with -fetchmail. The symptom is an error message "553 Local configuration -error, hostname not recognized as local". The problem is that +fetchmail. The symptom is an error message "<code>553 Local configuration +error, hostname not recognized as local</code>". The problem is that fetchmail normally feeds sendmail with the client machine's host address in the MAIL FROM line. These sendmails think this means they're seeing the result of a mail loop and suppress the mail. You -may be able to work around this by running in --invisible mode. +may be able to work around this by running in <code>--invisible</code> mode. <hr> <h2><a name="T2">T2. How can I use fetchmail with qmail?</a></h2> @@ -1202,7 +1206,7 @@ fetchmail with -N and an ampersand to background it.<P> This should not happen under Linux or any truly POSIX-conformant Unix.<P> <hr> -<a name="R8">R8. Fetchmail hangs when used with pppd.</a><h2> +<h2><a name="R8">R8. Fetchmail hangs when used with pppd.</a></h2> Your problem may be with pppd's `demand' option. We have a report that fetchmail doesn't play well with it, but works with pppd if `demand' @@ -1455,7 +1459,7 @@ If you know the messages aren't split in your server mailbox, then this is a problem with your POP/IMAP server, your client-side SMTP listener or your local delivery agent. Fetchmail cannot split messages.<p> -Some POP daemons ignore Content-Length headers and split messages on +Some POP server daemons ignore Content-Length headers and split messages on From lines. We have one report that the 2.1 version of the BSD popper program (as distributed on Solaris 2.5 and elsewhere) is broken this way.<p> @@ -1704,7 +1708,7 @@ 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: 1998/01/18 06:33:21 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/01/22 23:33:42 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |