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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 78ed54e0..9fe1864a 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: 2000/02/12 06:02:32 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/02/15 02:13:55 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -32,13 +32,14 @@ mail it to fetchmail's maintainer, Eric S. Raymond, at <a href="#G5">G5. Is there a mailing list for exchanging tips?</a><br> <a href="#G6">G6. So, what's this I hear about a fetchmail paper?</a><br> <a href="#G7">G7. What is the best server to use with fetchmail?</a><br> -<a href="#G8">G8. How can I avoid sending my password en clair?</a><br> -<a href="#G9">G9. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic +<a href="#G8">G8. What is the best mail program to use with fetchmail?</a><br> +<a href="#G9">G9. How can I avoid sending my password en clair?</a><br> +<a href="#G10">G10. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic IP address?</a><br> -<a href="#G10">G10. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?</a><br> -<a href="#G11">G11. Is any special configuration needed to <em>send</em> mail?</a><br> -<a href="#G12">G12. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?</a><br> -<a href="#G13">G13. Is there a way in fetchmail to support disconnected IMAP mode?</a><br> +<a href="#G11">G11. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?</a><br> +<a href="#G12">G12. Is any special configuration needed to <em>send</em> mail?</a><br> +<a href="#G13">G13. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?</a><br> +<a href="#G14">G14. Is there a way in fetchmail to support disconnected IMAP mode?</a><br> <h1>Build-time problems:</h1> @@ -387,7 +388,24 @@ The 2.5.2 version appears to restore the open-source license of previous versions.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="G8">G8. How can I avoid sending my password en clair?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="G8">G8. What is the best mail program to use with fetchmail?</a></h2> + +Fetchmail will work with all popular <a href="#T1">mail transport programs</a>. +It also doesn't care which user agent you use, and user agents are as a +rule almost equally indifferent to how mail is delivered into your system +mailbox. So any of the popular Unix mail agents -- elm, pine, mh, or +mutt -- will work fine with fetchmail.<p> + +All this having been said, I can't resist putting in a discreet plug +for <a href="http://www.mutt.org">mutt</a>. My own personal mail +setup is sendmail plus fetchmail plus mutt. Mutt's interface is only +a little different from that of its now-moribund ancestor elm, but its +excellent handling of MIME and PGP put it in a class by itself. You +won't need its built-in POP3 support, though; most of the mutt +developers will cheerfully admit that fetchmail's is better :-).<p> + +<hr> +<h2><a name="G9">G9. How can I avoid sending my password en clair?</a></h2> Depending on what your mail server you are talking to, this ranges from trivial to impossible. It may even be next to useless.<P> @@ -479,7 +497,7 @@ because this is how Craig gets his mail ;-)<P> restrictions.)<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="G9">G9. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic IP address?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="G10">G10. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic IP address?</a></h2> Yes. In order to avoid giving indigestion to certain picky MTAs (notably <a href="#T3">exim</a>), fetchmail always makes the RCPT TO @@ -539,7 +557,7 @@ See the <a href="http://www.lege.com/sendmail-FAQ.txt">sendmail FAQ</a> for more details.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="G10">G10. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="G11">G11. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?</a></h2> No. You can use fetchmail with SOCKS, the standard tool for indirecting TCP/IP through a firewall. You can find out about SOCKS, @@ -562,7 +580,7 @@ will be happier.''<P> I couldn't have put it better myself, and ain't going to try now.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="G11">G11. Is any special configuration needed to <em>send</em> mail?</a></h2> +<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 to implement another tool or will fetchmail do this too?<p> @@ -580,7 +598,7 @@ automatically dial out when your kernel is called to open a TCP/IP connection, this will ensure that the mail gets out.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="G12">G12. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="G13">G13. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?</a></h2> Fetchmail is fully Y2K-compliant.<P> @@ -590,7 +608,7 @@ for anything but log entry generation. Anyway, if you aren't running on a 64-bit machine by then, you deserve to lose.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="G13">G13. Is there a way in fetchmail to support disconnected IMAP mode?</a></H2> +<h2><a name="G14">G14. Is there a way in fetchmail to support disconnected IMAP mode?</a></H2> No. Fetchmail is a mail transport agent, best understood as a protocol gateway between POP3/IMAP servers and SMTP. Disconnected operation @@ -2591,7 +2609,7 @@ 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: 2000/02/12 06:02:32 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/02/15 02:13:55 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |