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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: 1999/05/16 20:20:41 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/06/07 12:04:11 $
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<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ IP address?</a><br>
<a href="#G10">G10. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?</a><br>
<a href="#G11">G11. Is any special configuration needed to <em>send</em> mail?</a><br>
+<a href="#G12">G12. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?</a><br>
+
+
<h1>Build-time problems:</h1>
<a href="#B1">B1. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.</a><br>
@@ -554,6 +557,15 @@ automatically dial out when your kernel is called to open a TCP/IP
connection, this will ensure that the mail gets out.<P>
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+<h2><a name="G12">G12. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?</a></h2>
+
+Fetchmail is fully Y2K-compliant.<P>
+
+Fetchmail could theoretically have problems when the 32-bit time_t's roll
+over in 2038, but I doubt it. Timestamps aren't used for anything but
+log entry generation.<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>
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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: 1999/05/16 20:20:41 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/06/07 12:04:11 $
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<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>