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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 041fcae5..49100450 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: 1999/05/16 16:59:45 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/05/16 20:20:41 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -67,17 +67,18 @@ IP address?</a><br> <a href="#T5">T5. How can I use fetchmail with SCO's MMDF?</a><br> <a href="#T6">T6. How can I use fetchmail with Lotus Notes?</a><br> -<h1>How to make fetchmail work with nonstandard servers:</h1> +<h1>How to make fetchmail work with various servers:</h1> -<a href="#S1">S1. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft Exchange?</a><br> -<a href="#S2">S2. How can I use fetchmail with Compuserve RPA?</a><br> -<a href="#S3">S3. How can I use fetchmail with Demon Internet's SDPS?</a><br> -<a href="#S4">S4. How can I use fetchmail with usa.net's servers?</a><br> -<a href="#S5">S5. How can I use fetchmail with HP OpenMail?</a><br> -<a href="#S6">S6. How can I use fetchmail with geocities POP3 servers?</a><br> -<a href="#S7">S7. How can I use fetchmail with Hotmail?</a><br> -<a href="#S8">S8. How can I use fetchmail with MSN?</a><br> -<a href="#S9">S9. How can I use fetchmail with SpryNet?</a><br> +<a href="#S1">S1. How can I use fetchmail with qpopper?</a><br> +<a href="#S2">S2. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft Exchange?</a><br> +<a href="#S3">S3. How can I use fetchmail with Compuserve RPA?</a><br> +<a href="#S4">S4. How can I use fetchmail with Demon Internet's SDPS?</a><br> +<a href="#S5">S5. How can I use fetchmail with usa.net's servers?</a><br> +<a href="#S6">S6. How can I use fetchmail with HP OpenMail?</a><br> +<a href="#S7">S7. How can I use fetchmail with geocities POP3 servers?</a><br> +<a href="#S8">S8. How can I use fetchmail with Hotmail?</a><br> +<a href="#S9">S9. How can I use fetchmail with MSN?</a><br> +<a href="#S10">S10. How can I use fetchmail with SpryNet?</a><br> <h1>How to set up well-known security and authentication methods:</h1> @@ -319,7 +320,7 @@ Here's a longer answer: <P> Fetchmail will work with any POP, IMAP, or ESMTP/ETRN server that conforms to the relevant RFCs (and even some outright broken ones like -<a href="#S1">Microsoft Exchange</a>). This doesn't mean it works +<a href="#S2">Microsoft Exchange</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> @@ -337,7 +338,7 @@ It also recovers from interrupted connections more gracefully than POP3, and enables some significant performance optimizations.<P> Don't be fooled by NT/Exchange propaganda. M$ Exchange is just plain -broken (see item <a href="#S1">S1</a>) and NT cannot handle the +broken (see item <a href="#S2">S2</a>) and NT cannot handle the sustained load of a high-volume remote mail server. Even Microsoft itself knows better than to try this; their own Hotmail service runs over Solaris! For extended discussion, see John Kirch's excellent <a @@ -420,7 +421,7 @@ AUTH=KERBEROS_V4 in the CAPABILITY response.<P> If you are fetching mail from a CompuServe POP3 account, you can use their RPA authentication (which works much like APOP). See <a -href="#S2">S2</a> for details.<P> +href="#S3">S3</a> for details.<P> Your POP3 server may have the RFC1938 OTP capability to use one-time passwords (if it doesn't, you can get OTP patches for the 2.2 version @@ -1116,7 +1117,38 @@ to \r\n, but its rules are not the intuitive and correct-for-RFC822 ones. Use `forcecr'.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="S1">S1. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft Exchange?</a></h2><p> +<h2><a name="S1">S1. How can I use fetchmail with qpopper?</a></h2> + +Qualcomm's qpopper is probably the best-of-breed among POP3 servers, and +is very widely deployed. Nevertheless, it has some problems which +fetchmail exposes. We recommend using <a href="#G7">IMAP</a> instead if at +all possible. If you must talk to qpopper, here are some problems to +be aware of:<p> + +<h3>Problems with retrieving large messages from qpopper 2.53</h3> + +Tony Tang <a href="mailto:tyw@atnhk.com"><tyw@atnhk.com></a> +reports that there is a bad intercation between fetchmail and qpopper +2.5.3 under Red Hat Linux versions 5.0 to 5.2, kernels 2.0.34 to +2.0.35. When fetching very large messages (over 700K) from 2.5.3, +fetchmail will hang with a socket error.<p> + +This is probably not a fetchmail bug, but rather a symptom of some +problem in the networking stack that qpopper's transmission pattern is +tickling, as fetchpop (another Linux POP client) also displays the hang +but Netscape running under Win95 does not. The problem can also be +banished by <a +href="http://www.eudora.com/freeware/qpop.html">upgrading to qpopper +3.0b1</a>.<p> + +<h3>Bad interaction with fetchmail 4.4.2 to 4,4.7</h3> + +Versions of fetchmail from 4.4.2 through 4.4.7 had a bad interaction +with Eudora qpopper versions 2.3 and later. See <a href="#X5">X5</a> +for details. The solution is to upgrade your fetchmail.<p> + +<hr> +<h2><a name="S2">S2. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft Exchange?</a></h2> M$ Exchange violates the POP3 RFCs. Its LIST command does not reveal the real sizes of mail in the pop mailbox, but the sizes of the @@ -1186,7 +1218,7 @@ brain-dead Microsoft crap and install a real operating system on your mailserver.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="S2">S2. How can I use fetchmail with CompuServe RPA?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="S3">S3. How can I use fetchmail with CompuServe RPA?</a></h2> First, make sure your fetchmail has the RPA support compiled in. Stock fetchmail binaries (such as you might get from an RPM) don't. @@ -1224,7 +1256,7 @@ poll non-rpa.csi.com via "pop.site1.csi.com" with proto POP3 and options no dns </pre> <hr> -<h2><a name="S3">S3. How can I use fetchmail with Demon Internet's SDPS?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="S4">S4. How can I use fetchmail with Demon Internet's SDPS?</a></h2> Demon Internet's SDPS service is an implementation of POP3. All messages have a Received: header added when they enter the maildrop, like this: @@ -1281,7 +1313,7 @@ greeting line; if you're accessing Demon Internet through a proxy it may fail. To force SDPS mode, pick "sdps" as your protocol.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="S4">S4. How can I use fetchmail with usa.net's servers?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="S5">S5. How can I use fetchmail with usa.net's servers?</a></h2> Enable `<CODE>fetchall</CODE>'. A user reports that the 2.2 version of USA.NET's POP server reports that you must use the @@ -1301,10 +1333,10 @@ They seem to be chronically flaky. We recommend finding another provider.)<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="S5">S5. How can I use fetchmail with HP OpenMail?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="S6">S6. How can I use fetchmail with HP OpenMail?</a></h2> No special configuration is required, but OpenMail has an annoying bug -similar to the big one in <a href="#S1">Microsoft Exchange</a>. +similar to the big one in <a href="#S2">Microsoft Exchange</a>. The message sizes it gives in the LIST are rounded to the nearest 1024 bytes. It also has a nasty habit of discarding headers it doesn't recognize, such as X- and Resent- headers.<P> @@ -1313,7 +1345,7 @@ As with M$ Exchange, the only real fix for these problems is to get a POP (or preferably IMAP) server that isn't brain-dead.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="S7">S7. How can I use fetchmail with Hotmail?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="S8">S8. How can I use fetchmail with Hotmail?</a></h2> You can't, yet. But Hugo Rabson has written a script called `hotmole' that can retrieve Hotmail mail via the web using Lynx. The script @@ -1322,7 +1354,7 @@ href="http://www.jin-sei-kai.demon.co.uk/hugo/linux.html"> Hugo Rabson's Linux page</a>.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="S8">S8. How can I use fetchmail with MSN?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="S9">S9. How can I use fetchmail with MSN?</a></h2> You can't. MSN uses something that looks like POP3, except the authentication part is nonstandard. And of course they don't @@ -1332,7 +1364,7 @@ This is a customer lock-in tactic; we recommend boycotting MSN as the only appropriate response.<p> <hr> -<h2><a name="S9">S9. How can I use fetchmail with SpryNet?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="S10">S10. How can I use fetchmail with SpryNet?</a></h2> The SpryNet POP3 servers mark a message queried with TOP as seen. This means that if your connection drops in mid-message, it may end @@ -1370,7 +1402,7 @@ and set the makefile up to link it. You can also specify a directory containing the Rconnect library.<p> <hr> -<h2><a name="S6">S6. How can I use fetchmail with geocities POP3 servers?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="S7">S7. How can I use fetchmail with geocities POP3 servers?</a></h2> Nathan Cutler reports that the the mail.geocities.com POP3 servers fail to include the first Received line of the message in the send to @@ -1400,7 +1432,7 @@ the NRL IPv6+IPsec software distribution or a Linux system with the latest experimental kernel and net-tools. It should not be hard to build fetchmail on other IPv6 implementations if you can port the inet6-apps kit.<P> -To use fetchmail with network security (read: IPsec), you need a system that +To use fetchmail with networking security (read: IPsec), you need a system that supports IPsec, the API described in the "Network Security API for Sockets" (draft-metz-net-security-api-01.txt), and the inet6-apps kit. This currently means that you need to have a BSD/OS or NetBSD system with the NRL IPv6+IPsec @@ -2341,7 +2373,7 @@ 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: 1999/05/16 16:59:45 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/05/16 20:20:41 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |