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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 22a15af3..80bbc680 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: 1997/09/11 18:21:55 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/09/11 20:17:57 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ mail it to fetchmail's maintainer, Eric S. Raymond, at <a href="#G4">G4. I have this idea for a neat feature. Will you add it?</a><br> <a href="#G5">G5. Is there a mailing list for exchanging tips?</a><br> <a href="#G6">G6. So, what's this I hear about a fetchmail paper?</a><br> +<a href="#G7">G7. What is the best server to use with fetchmail?</a><br> <h1>Fetchmail configuration file grammar questions:</h1> @@ -226,6 +227,26 @@ 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> <hr> +<h2><a name="G7">G7. What is the best server to use with fetchmail?</a></h2> + +Fetchmail will work with any POP, IMAP, or ESMTP/ETRN server that +conforms to the relevant RFCs (this excludes oughtright broken ones +like Microsoft Exchange, see <a href="#T5">T5</a>). This doesn't mean +it works equally well with all, however. POP2 servers, and POP3 +servers without LAST, limit fetchmail's capabilities in various ways +described on the manual page.<P> + +Most modern Unixes (and effectively all Linux/*BSD systems) come with +POP3 support preconfigured. 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. You can find +sources for IMAP software at <a href="http://www.imap.org">The IMAP +Connection</a>; we like the freeware UW IMAP and Cyrus products. UW +IMAP is the reference implementation of IMAP.<P> + +<hr> <h2><a name="F1">F1. Why does my old .fetchmailrc file no longer work?</a></h2> <h3>If your file predates 4.0.6:</h3> @@ -933,8 +954,7 @@ message can lurk invisibly in your server mailbox forever.<p> Workaround: add the `<CODE>fetchall</CODE>' keyword to your POP3 fetch options.<p> -Solution: switch to an <a -href="http://www.washington.edu/imap">IMAP</a> server.<p> +Solution: switch to an <a href="http://www.imap.org">IMAP</a> server.<p> <hr> <h2><a name="R6">R6. Fetchmail dumps core when I use a .netrc file but works otherwise.</a></h2> @@ -1283,15 +1303,15 @@ doing an expunge (removing deleted messages) on a line hangup, as well as on processing a QUIT command.<P> The other (which we recommend) is to switch to <a -href="http://www.washington.edu/imap">IMAP</a>. IMAP has an explicit -expunge command and fetchmail uses it to delete messages quickly after -they are downloaded.<P> +href="http://www.imap.org">IMAP</a>. IMAP has an explicit expunge +command and fetchmail uses it to delete messages quickly after they +are downloaded.<P> <HR> <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: 1997/09/11 18:21:55 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/09/11 20:17:57 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |