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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 4670a569..9d487487 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: 1998/06/05 17:23:28 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/06/05 18:43:20 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ sources?</a></h2> The latest HTML FAQ is available alongside the latest fetchmail sources at the fetchmail home page: <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail"> -http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail</a>. You can also find +http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail</a>. You can also usually find both in the <a href="http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/pop/!INDEX.html">POP mail tools directory on Sunsite</a>.<p> @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ upgrade to the newest version, and then see if the problem reproduces. So you'll probably save us both time if you upgrade and test with the latest version <em>before</em> sending in a bug report.<P> -It is helpful if you include your .fetchmailrc, but not necessary +It is helpful if you include your .fetchmailrc file, but not necessary unless your symptom seems to involve an error in configuration parsing.<p> If fetchmail seems to run and fetch mail, but the headers look mangled @@ -195,7 +195,9 @@ tweaking your configuration.<P> A transcript of the failed session with -v on is almost always useful. It is very important that the transcript include your POP/IMAP server's -greeting line, so I can identify it in case of server problems.<P> +greeting line, so I can identify it in case of server problems. Doing +this will not reveal your passwords, which are specially masked +out precisely so the transcript can be passed around.<P> If the bug involves a core dump or hang, a gdb stack trace is good to have. (Bear in mind that you can attach gdb to a running but hung process by @@ -299,7 +301,8 @@ Most modern Unixes (and effectively all Linux/*BSD systems) come with POP3 support preconfigured (but beware of the horribly broken POP3 server mentioned in <a href="#D2">D2</a>). An increasing minority also feature IMAP (you can detect IMAP support by running fetchmail in -AUTO mode).<P> +AUTO mode, or by using the `Probe for a server' function in the +fetchmailconf utility).<P> If you have the option, we recommend using or installing IMAP4rev1; it has the best facilities for tracking message `seen' states. It also @@ -1951,7 +1954,7 @@ 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: 1998/06/05 17:23:28 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/06/05 18:43:20 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |