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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 1b9693fe..5aaecd29 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: 1999/07/31 20:44:54 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/07/31 21:41:50 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -666,27 +666,26 @@ Do similarly for any `<CODE>monitor</CODE>' or `<CODE>batchlimit</CODE>' options <hr> <h2><a name="F2">F2. The .fetchmailrc parser won't accept my all-numeric user name.</a></h2> -So put string quotes around it. :-)<p> +Either upgrade to a post-5.0.5 fetchmail or put string quotes around it. :-)<p> -The configuration file parser treats any all-numeric token as a -number, which will confuse it when it's expecting a name. String -quoting forces the token's class.<p> +The configuration file parser in older fetchmail versions treated any +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. <hr> <h2><a name="F3">F3. The .fetchmailrc parser won't accept my host or username beginning with `no'.</a></h2> -You're caught in an unfortunate crack between the newer-style syntax -for negated options (`no keep', `no rewrite' etc.) and the older style -run-on syntax (`nokeep', `norewrite' etc.).<p> +See <a href="#F2">F2</a> You're caught in an unfortunate crack between +the newer-style syntax for negated options (`no keep', `no rewrite' +etc.) and the older style run-on syntax (`nokeep', `norewrite' +etc.).<p> -You can work around this easily. Just put string quotes around your +Upgrade to a 5.0.6 or later fetchmail, or put string quotes around your token.<p> -I haven't fixed this because there is no good fix for it short of -implementing a token pushback stack in the lexer. That's more -additional complexity than I'm willing to add to banish a very -marginal bug with an easy workaround.<p> - <hr> <h2><a name="F4">F4. I'm migrating from popclient. How do I need to modify my .poprc?</a></h2> @@ -2428,7 +2427,7 @@ 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: 1999/07/31 20:44:54 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/07/31 21:41:50 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |