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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 2bcf3923..dfc6ebd5 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: 1998/04/19 04:13:01 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/04/19 22:21:37 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ when I may have multiple login sessions going?</a><br> <a href="#X2">X2. My mail client can't see a Subject line.</a><br> <a href="#X3">X3. Messages containing "From" at start of line are being split.</a><br> <a href="#X4">X4. My mail is being mangled in a new and different way.</a><br> +<a href="#X5">X5. Using POP3, retrievals seems to be fetching too much!</a><br> <h1>Other Problems:</h1> @@ -1762,6 +1763,23 @@ it, just touch(1) the logfile before you run fetchmail (this will have no effect on the contents of the logfile if it already exists).<P> <hr> +<h2><a name="X5">X5. Using POP3, retrievals seems to be fetching too much!</a></h2> + +This may happen in versions of fetchmail after 4.4.1, which use POP3's +TOP command rather than RETR in order to avoid marking the message +seen (leaving it unseen is helpful for later recovery if you lose your +connection in the middle of a retrieval).<P> + +If your POP3 server fails to sanity-check TOP requests and clip them at +the next end-of-message, it will fetch the entire tail of the mailbox +starting with the current message. The qpopper 2.41 beta 1 server is +known to have this bug (though the qpopper 2.2 found on many Unixes +does not).<P> + +To work around it, set the <code>fetchall</code> option. Under POP3 +only, this now has the side effect of forcing RETR use.<P> + +<hr> <h2><a name="O2">O2. Every time I get a POP or IMAP message the header is dumped to all my terminal sessions.</a></h2> @@ -1892,7 +1910,7 @@ 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: 1998/04/19 04:13:01 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/04/19 22:21:37 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |