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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index d7e493fc..c772df71 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: 1998/08/03 19:21:44 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/08/17 23:43:06 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ IP address?</a><br> <a href="#C3">C3. How do I know what interface and address to use with --interface?</a><br> <a href="#C4">C4. How can I set up support for sendmail's anti-spam features?</a><br> -<h1>How to make fetchmail play nice with other software:</h1> +<h1>How to make fetchmail play nice with various MTAs:</h1> <a href="#T1">T1. How can I use fetchmail with sendmail?</a><br> <a href="#T2">T2. How can I use fetchmail with qmail?</a><br> @@ -65,15 +65,22 @@ IP address?</a><br> <a href="#T4">T4. How can I use fetchmail with smail?</a><br> <a href="#T5">T5. How can I use fetchmail with SCO's MMDF?</a><br> <a href="#T6">T6. How can I use fetchmail with Lotus Notes?</a><br> -<a href="#T7">T7. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft Exchange?</a><br> -<a href="#T8">T8. How can I use fetchmail with Compuserve RPA?</a><br> -<a href="#T9">T9. How can I use fetchmail with Demon Internet's SDPS?</a><br> -<a href="#T10">T10. How can I use fetchmail with usa.net's servers?</a><br> -<a href="#T11">T11. How can I use fetchmail with HP OpenMail?</a><br> -<a href="#T12">T12. How can I use fetchmail with SOCKS?</a><br> -<a href="#T13">T13. How can I use fetchmail with IPv6 and IPsec?</a><br> -<a href="#T14">T14. How can I get fetchmail to work with ssh?</a><br> -<a href="#T15">T15. What do I have to do to use the IMAP-GSS protocol?</a><br> + +<h1>How to make fetchmail work with nonstandard servers:</h1> + +<a href="#S1">S1. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft Exchange?</a><br> +<a href="#S2">S2. How can I use fetchmail with Compuserve RPA?</a><br> +<a href="#S3">S3. How can I use fetchmail with Demon Internet's SDPS?</a><br> +<a href="#S4">S4. How can I use fetchmail with usa.net's servers?</a><br> +<a href="#S5">S5. How can I use fetchmail with HP OpenMail?</a><br> +<a href="#S6">S6. How can I use fetchmail with geocities POP3 servers?</a><br> + +<h1>How to set up well-known security and authentication methods:</h1> + +<a href="#K1">K1. How can I use fetchmail with SOCKS?</a><br> +<a href="#K2">K2. How can I use fetchmail with IPv6 and IPsec?</a><br> +<a href="#K3">K3. How can I get fetchmail to work with ssh?</a><br> +<a href="#K4">K4. What do I have to do to use the IMAP-GSS protocol?</a><br> <h1>Runtime fatal errors:</h1> @@ -319,7 +326,7 @@ It also recovers from interrupted connections more gracefully than POP3, and enables some significant performance optimizations.<P> Don't be fooled by NT/Exchange propaganda. M$ Exchange is just plain -broken (see item <a href="#T7">T7</a>) and NT cannot handle the +broken (see item <a href="#S1">S1</a>) and NT cannot handle the sustained load of a high-volume remote mail server. Even Microsoft itself knows better than to try this; their own Hotmail service runs over Solaris! For extended discussion, see John Kirch's excellent <a @@ -364,7 +371,7 @@ alone will really address your security exposure. If you think you might be snooped, it's better to use end-to-end encryption on your whole mail stream so none of it can be read. One of the advantages of fetchmail over conventional SMTP-push delivery is that you may be able -to arrange this by using ssh(1); see <a href="#T14">T14</a>.<P> +to arrange this by using ssh(1); see <a href="#K3">K3</a>.<P> If ssh/sshd isn't available, or you find it too complicated for you to set up, password encryption will at least keep a malicious cracker @@ -400,7 +407,7 @@ 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="#T8">T8</a> for details.<P> +href="#S2">S2</a> for details.<P> Your POP3 server may have the RFC1938 OTP capability to use one-time passwords (if it doesn't, you can get OTP patches for the 2.2 version @@ -500,7 +507,7 @@ the <a href="http://www.socks.nec.com/">SOCKS distribution site</a>.)<P> The specific recipe for using fetchmail with a firewall is at <a -href="#T12">T12</a><P> +href="#K1">K1</a><P> <hr> <h2><a name="B1">B1. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.</a></h2> @@ -1042,7 +1049,7 @@ 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> +<h2><a name="S1">S1. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft Exchange?</a></h2><p> M$ Exchange violates the POP3 RFCs. Its LIST command does not reveal the real sizes of mail in the pop mailbox, but the sizes of the @@ -1112,7 +1119,7 @@ brain-dead Microsoft crap and install a real operating system on your mailserver.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="T8">T8. How can I use fetchmail with CompuServe RPA?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="S2">S2. How can I use fetchmail with CompuServe RPA?</a></h2> First, make sure your fetchmail has the RPA support compiled in. Stock fetchmail binaries (such as you might get from an RPM) don't. @@ -1150,7 +1157,7 @@ poll non-rpa.csi.com via "pop.site1.csi.com" with proto POP3 and options no dns </pre> <hr> -<h2><a name="T9">T9. How can I use fetchmail with Demon Internet's SDPS?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="S3">S3. How can I use fetchmail with Demon Internet's SDPS?</a></h2> Demon Internet's SDPS service is a slight extension of POP3. You don't need to do anything special unless you want to retrieve in @@ -1168,7 +1175,7 @@ extension to get envelope To addresses.<P> (Note: in stock 4.5.5, the SDPS code is present but untested.)<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="T10">T10. How can I use fetchmail with usa.net's servers?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="S4">S4. How can I use fetchmail with usa.net's servers?</a></h2> Enable `<CODE>fetchall</CODE>'. A user reports that the 2.2 version of USA.NET's POP server reports that you must use the @@ -1190,10 +1197,10 @@ They seem to be chronically flaky. We recommend finding another provider.)<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="T11">T11. How can I use fetchmail with HP OpenMail?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="S5">S5. How can I use fetchmail with HP OpenMail?</a></h2> No special configuration is required, but OpenMail has an annoying bug -similar to the big one in <a href="#T7">Microsoft Exchange</a>. +similar to the big one in <a href="#S1">Microsoft Exchange</a>. The message sizes it gives in the LIST are rounded to the nearest 1024 bytes. It also has a nasty habit of discarding headers it doesn't recognize, such as X- and Resent- headers.<P> @@ -1202,7 +1209,7 @@ As with M$ Exchange, the only real fix for these problems is to get a POP (or preferably IMAP) server that isn't brain-dead.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="T12">T12. How can I use fetchmail with SOCKS?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="K1">K1. How can I use fetchmail with SOCKS?</a></h2> Daniel Sobral <<a href="mailto:dcs@gns.com.br">dcs@gns.com.br</a> gave us the following recipe:<P> @@ -1226,7 +1233,24 @@ gave us the following recipe:<P> It wasn't that hard, was it? :-)<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="T13">T13. How can I use fetchmail with IPv6 and IPsec?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="#S6">S6. How can I use fetchmail with geocities POP3 servers?</a></h2> + +Nathan Cutler reports that the the mail.geocities.com POP3 servers +fail to include the first Received line of the message in the send to +fetchmail. This can solve problems if your MUA interprets Received +continuations as body lines and doesn't parse any of the following +headers.<P> + +Workaround: +<pre> +mda "sed -e1,2D | formail | /usr/bin/procmail -d <user> +</pre> + +Fix: Get an email provider that doesn't suck. Geocities's pop-up adds +are lame, you should boycott them anyway.<P> + +<hr> +<h2><a name="K2">K2. How can I use fetchmail with IPv6 and IPsec?</a></h2> To use fetchmail with IPv6, you need a system that supports IPv6, the "Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6" (RFC 2133), and the inet6-apps kit. @@ -1264,7 +1288,7 @@ http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/IPv6-HOWTO/IPv6-HOWTO.html</a> </UL> <hr> -<h2><a name="T14">T14. How can I get fetchmail to work with ssh?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="K3">K3. How can I get fetchmail to work with ssh?</a></h2> We have two recipes for this. The first is a little easier to set up, but only supports one user at a time.<P> @@ -1360,7 +1384,7 @@ Send a HUP signal to your inetd. Now just use localhost:1234 to access your POP server.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="T15">T15. What do I have to do to use the IMAP-GSS protocol?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="K4">K4. What do I have to do to use the IMAP-GSS protocol?</a></h2> Fetchmail can use RFC1731 GSSAPI authorization to safely identify you to your IMAP server, as long as you can share Kerberos V credentials @@ -2075,7 +2099,7 @@ 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: 1998/08/03 19:21:44 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/08/17 23:43:06 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |