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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 7f4b0f00..8a6ad66b 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: 2000/02/24 05:57:57 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/02/26 03:16:53 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -51,8 +51,7 @@ IP address?</a><br> <a href="#F1">F1. Why does my old .fetchmailrc no longer work?</a><br> <a href="#F2">F2. The .fetchmailrc parser won't accept my all-numeric user name.</a><br> <a href="#F3">F3. The .fetchmailrc parser won't accept my host or username beginning with `no'.</a><br> -<a href="#F4">F4. I'm migrating from popclient. How do I need to modify my .poprc?</a><br> -<a href="#F5">F5. I'm getting a `parse error' message I don't understand.</a><br> +<a href="#F4">F4. I'm getting a `parse error' message I don't understand.</a><br> <h1>Configuration questions:</h1> @@ -574,17 +573,6 @@ The specific recipe for using fetchmail with a firewall is at <a href="#K1">K1</a><P> <hr> -<h2><a name="B1">B1. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.</a></h2> - -In the immortal words of Alan Cox the last time this came up: ``Take -the Solaris lex and stick it up the backside of a passing Sun -salesman, then install <a -href="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/ftp/pub/gnu">flex</a> and use that. All -will be happier.''<P> - -I couldn't have put it better myself, and ain't going to try now.<P> - -<hr> <h2><a name="G12">G12. Is any special configuration needed to <em>send</em> mail?</a></h2> A user asks: but how do we send mail out to the POP3 server? Do I need @@ -620,6 +608,17 @@ gateway between POP3/IMAP servers and SMTP. Disconnected operation requires an elaborate interactive client. It's a very different problem.<p> <hr> +<h2><a name="B1">B1. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.</a></h2> + +In the immortal words of Alan Cox the last time this came up: ``Take +the Solaris lex and stick it up the backside of a passing Sun +salesman, then install <a +href="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/ftp/pub/gnu">flex</a> and use that. All +will be happier.''<P> + +I couldn't have put it better myself, and ain't going to try now.<P> + +<hr> <h2><a name="B2">B2. I get link failures when I try to build fetchmail.</a></h2> If you get errors resembling these<P> @@ -745,60 +744,7 @@ Upgrade to a 5.0.6 or later fetchmail, or put string quotes around your token.<p> <hr> -<h2><a name="F4">F4. I'm migrating from popclient. How do I need to modify my .poprc?</a></h2> - -If you have been using popclient (the ancestor of this program) -at version 3.0b6 or later, start with this<p> - -<pre> -(cd; mv .poprc .fetchmailrc) -</pre> - -and do <code>fetchmail -V</code> to see if fetchmail's parser understands -your configuration.<p> - -Be aware that some of popclient's unnecessary options have been -removed (see the NOTES file in the distribution for explanation). You -can't deliver to a local mail file or to standard output any more, and -using an MDA for delivery is discouraged. If you throw those options -away, fetchmail will now forward your mail into your system's normal -Internet-mail delivery path.<p> - -Actually, using an MDA is now almost always the wrong thing; the MDA -facility has been retained only for people who can't or won't run a -sendmail-like SMTP listener on port 25. The default, SMTP forwarding -to port 25, is better for at least three major reasons. One: it feeds -retrieved POP and IMAP mail into your system's normal delivery path -along with local mail and normal Internet mail, so all your normal -filtering/aliasing/forwarding setup for local mail works. Two: -because the port 25 listener returns a positive acknowledge, fetchmail -can be sure you're not going to lose mail to a disk-full or some other -resource-exhaustion problem. Three: it means fetchmail doesn't have -to know where the system mailboxes are, or futz with file locking -(which makes two fewer places for it to potentially mess up).<p> - -If you used to use <CODE>-mda "procmail -d</CODE> -<em><you></em><CODE>"</CODE> or something similar, forward to port -25 and do "<CODE>| procmail -d</CODE> <em><you></em><CODE>"</CODE> in -your ~/.forward file.<p> - -As long as your new .fetchmailrc file does not use the removed -`localfolder' option or `<CODE>limit</CODE>' (which now takes a -maximum byte size rather than a line count), a straight move or copy -of your .poprc will often work. (The new run control file syntax also -has to be a little stricter about the order of options than the old, -in order to support multiple user descriptions per server; thus you -may have to rearrange things a bit.)<p> - -Run control files in the minimal .poprc format (without the `username' -token) will trigger a warning. To eliminate this warning, add the -`<CODE>username</CODE>' keyword before your first user entry per server (it is -already required before second and subsequent user entries per server.<p> - -In some future version the `<CODE>username</CODE>' keyword will be required.<p> - -<hr> -<h2><a name="F5">F5. I'm getting a `parse error' message I don't understand.</a></h2> +<h2><a name="F4">F4. I'm getting a `parse error' message I don't understand.</a></h2> The most common cause of mysterious parse errors is putting a server option after a user option. Check the manual page; you'll probably @@ -2654,7 +2600,7 @@ terminate it.<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: 2000/02/24 05:57:57 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/02/26 03:16:53 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |