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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 37cc3c42..6f0b1ec8 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: 1999/11/30 20:01:32 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/12/19 18:05:39 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -539,6 +539,17 @@ The specific recipe for using fetchmail with a firewall is at <a href="#K1">K1</a><P> <hr> +<h2><a name="B1">B1. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.</a></h2> + +In the immortal words of Alan Cox the last time this came up: ``Take +the Solaris lex and stick it up the backside of a passing Sun +salesman, then install <a +href="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/ftp/pub/gnu">flex</a> and use that. All +will be happier.''<P> + +I couldn't have put it better myself, and ain't going to try now.<P> + +<hr> <h2><a name="G11">G11. Is any special configuration needed to <em>send</em> mail?</a></h2> A user asks: but how do we send mail out to the POP3 server? Do I need @@ -574,17 +585,6 @@ gateway between POP3/IMAP servers and SMTP. Disconnected operation requires an elaborate interactive client. It's a very different problem.<p> <hr> -<h2><a name="B1">B1. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.</a></h2> - -In the immortal words of Alan Cox the last time this came up: ``Take -the Solaris lex and stick it up the backside of a passing Sun -salesman, then install <a -href="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/ftp/pub/gnu">flex</a> and use that. All -will be happier.''<P> - -I couldn't have put it better myself, and ain't going to try now.<P> - -<hr> <h2><a name="B2">B2. I get link failures when I try to build fetchmail.</a></h2> If you get errors resembling these<P> @@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ all-numeric token as a number, which confused it when it was expecting a name. String quoting forces the token's class.<p> The lexical analyzer in 5.0.6 and beyond is smarter and assumes -any token following "username" or "password" is a string.<p> +any token following "username" or "password" is a string. <hr> <h2><a name="F3">F3. The .fetchmailrc parser won't accept my host or username beginning with `no'.</a></h2> @@ -1193,7 +1193,7 @@ banished by <a href="http://www.eudora.com/freeware/qpop.html">upgrading to qpopper 3.0b1</a>.<p> -<h3>Bad interaction with fetchmail 4.4.2 to 4.4.7</h3> +<h3>Bad interaction with fetchmail 4.4.2 to 4,4.7</h3> Versions of fetchmail from 4.4.2 through 4.4.7 had a bad interaction with Eudora qpopper versions 2.3 and later. See <a href="#X5">X5</a> @@ -1466,10 +1466,6 @@ You can't. At least not if you want to be able to see attachments. MailMax has a bug; it reports the message length with attachments but doesn't download them on TOP or RETR. <p> -We recommend ditching MailMax for a server that actually works. While -you're at it, you should consider ditching the NT it runs over for an operating -system that actually works (see <a href="#G7">G7</a>).<p> - <hr> <h2><a name="S10">S10. How can I use fetchmail with Novell GroupWise?</a></h2> @@ -1894,7 +1890,7 @@ option values that work:<P> </pre> <hr> -<h2><a name="R8">R8. Fetchmail running as root stopped working after an OS upgrade</a></h2> +<a name="R8">R8. Fetchmail running as root stopped working after an OS upgrade</a></h2> In RH 6.0, the HOME value in the boot-time root environment changed from /root to / as the result of a change in init. Move your @@ -2502,7 +2498,7 @@ inactivity timeout.<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: 1999/11/30 20:01:32 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/12/19 18:05:39 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |