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<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: 1997/10/03 16:24:26 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/10/03 23:05:44 $
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<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
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<a href="#T5">T5. How can I use fetchmail with Lotus Notes?</a><br>
<a href="#T6">T6. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft Exchange?</a><br>
<a href="#T7">T7. How can I use fetchmail with Compuserve RPA?</a><br>
+<a href="#T8">T8. How can I use fetchmail with HP OpenMail?</a><br>
<h1>Runtime fatal errors:</h1>
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password handshake.<P>
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+<h2><a name="T8">T8. 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="#T6">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>
+
+As with M$ Exchange, the only real fix for these problems is to get a
+POP server that isn't brain-dead.<P>
+
+<hr>
<h2><a name="R1">R1. Fetchmail isn't working, and -v shows `SMTP connect failed' messages.</a></h2>
Fetchmail itself is probably working, but your SMTP port 25 listener
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<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: 1997/10/03 16:24:26 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/10/03 23:05:44 $
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<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>