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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 8b6e6d81..556f82a0 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -148,7 +148,8 @@ host?.</a><br/> <a href="#I5">I5. How can I use fetchmail with Hotmail or Lycos Webmail?</a><br/> <a href="#I6">I6. How can I use fetchmail with MSN?</a><br/> <a href="#I7">I7. How can I use fetchmail with SpryNet?</a><br/> -<a href="#I8">I8. How can I use fetchmail with comcast.net?</a><br/> +<a href="#I8">I8. How can I use fetchmail with comcast.net or other + Maillennium servers?</a><br/> <h2 id="C_K">How to set up well-known security and authentication methods</h2> @@ -2001,18 +2002,24 @@ may end up invisibly stuck on your mail spool. Use the <code>fetchall</code> flag to ensure that it's recovered on the next cycle.</p> -<h2><a id="I8" name="I8">I8. How can I use fetchmail with comcast.net?</a></h2> +<h2><a id="I8" name="I8">I8. How can I use fetchmail with comcast.net or + other Maillennium servers?</a></h2> -<p>Stock fetchmail will work with a comcast.net server...<em>but</em> -the Maillennium POP3 server comcast use seems to have an 80 kB limit on -the length of downloaded messages if you use POP3 TOP to retrieve. -Anything larger is silently truncated. Don't mistake this for a -fetchmail bug. (Reported July 2003.)</p> +<p>Stock fetchmail will work with a +Maillennium POP3/PROXY server... <em>but</em> this server will +truncate "TOP" responses after 64&dots;82 kB (we have varying reports), +in violation of Internet Standard #53 aka. RFC-1939 (POP3). Don't +mistake this for a fetchmail bug. (Reported July 2003.) Comcast +documented they haven't understood what this is about in <a + href="http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2004-April/008523.html">two +messages from April 2004.</a></p> <p>Beginning with version 6.3.2, fetchmail will fall back to the RETR command if the greeting string contains "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", and print a warning message. This means however that fetchmail has no -means to prevent the "seen" flag from being set on the server.</p> +means to prevent the "seen" flag from being set on the server (Note that +officially, POP3 has no notion of seen tracking, but it works for some +sites.)</p> <p>Workaround for older versions: use the <tt>fetchall</tt> option.</p> |