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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index e7985fd0..76010ebd 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: 1997/11/05 15:36:00 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/11/18 18:25:52 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -57,16 +57,17 @@ IP address?</a><br> <a href="#C6">C6. How can I do automatic startup/shutdown of fetchmail when I may have multiple login sessions going?</a><br> -<h1>Configuration tips for non-sendmail MTAs and unusual servers.</h1> +<h1>Configuration tips for various MTAs and servers.</h1> -<a href="#T1">T1. How can I use fetchmail with qmail?</a><br> -<a href="#T2">T2. How can I use fetchmail with exim?</a><br> -<a href="#T3">T3. How can I use fetchmail with smail?</a><br> -<a href="#T4">T4. How can I use fetchmail with SCO's MMDF?</a><br> -<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> +<a href="#T1">T1. How can I use fetchmail with sendmail?</a><br> +<a href="#T2">T2. How can I use fetchmail with qmail?</a><br> +<a href="#T3">T3. How can I use fetchmail with exim?</a><br> +<a href="#T4">T4. How can I use fetchmail with smail?</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> +<a href="#T7">T7. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft Exchange?</a><br> +<a href="#T8">T8. How can I use fetchmail with Compuserve RPA?</a><br> +<a href="#T9">T9. How can I use fetchmail with HP OpenMail?</a><br> <h1>Runtime fatal errors:</h1> @@ -853,7 +854,14 @@ profiles that will accomplish this. Thank James Laferriere <babydr@nwrain.net> for it.<p> <hr> -<h2><a name="T1">T1. How can I use fetchmail with qmail?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="T1">T1. How can I use fetchmail with sendmail?</a></h2> + +No special configuration is required. Eric Allman tells me that if +<code>FEATURE(always_add_domain)</code> is included in sendmail's +configuration, you can leave the <code>rewrite</code> option off. + +<hr> +<h2><a name="T2">T2. How can I use fetchmail with qmail?</a></h2> Turn on the <CODE>forcecr</CODE> option; qmail's listener mode doesn't like header or message lines terminated with bare linefeeds.<p> @@ -922,7 +930,7 @@ alias mechanism described above, you can use the option `<code>qvirtual from the local user name.<p> <hr> -<h2><a name="T2">T2. How can I use fetchmail with exim?</a></h2><p> +<h2><a name="T3">T3. How can I use fetchmail with exim?</a></h2><p> By default, the exim listener enforces the the RFC1123 requirement that MAIL FROM and RCPT TO addresses you pass to it have to be canonical @@ -955,7 +963,7 @@ to their return address (your SMTP listener's hostname rather than that of the remote mail server). <p> <hr> -<h2><a name="T3">T3. How can I use fetchmail with smail?</a></h2><p> +<h2><a name="T4">T4. How can I use fetchmail with smail?</a></h2><p> Smail 3.2 is very nearly plug-compatible with sendmail, and may work fine out of the box.<P> @@ -976,20 +984,20 @@ mismatch, so smail's new behavior (introduced sometime between 3.2.0.90 and 3.2.0.95) is a bug.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="T4">T4. How can I use fetchmail with SCO's MMDF?</a></h2><p> +<h2><a name="T5">T5. How can I use fetchmail with SCO's MMDF?</a></h2><p> We're told this is possible, but difficult and tricky (and we don't have the recipe for it). Our informant suggests dropping MMDF and using sendmail instead.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="T5">T5. How can I use fetchmail with Lotus Notes?</a></h2><p> +<h2><a name="T6">T6. How can I use fetchmail with Lotus Notes?</a></h2><p> The Lotus Notes SMTP gateway tries to deduce when it should convert \n to \r\n, but its rules are not intuitive. Use `forcecr'.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="T6">T6. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft Exchange?</a></h2><p> +<h2><a name="T7">T7. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft Exchange?</a></h2><p> 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 @@ -1008,7 +1016,7 @@ If you want these fixed, go bug the Evil Empire. Or, better yet, install a real operating system on your server and run IMAP.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="T7">T7. How can I use fetchmail with CompuServe RPA?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="T8">T8. 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. @@ -1024,7 +1032,7 @@ RPA-capable, and if so do an RPA transaction rather than a plain-text password handshake.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="T8">T8. How can I use fetchmail with HP OpenMail?</a></h2> +<h2><a name="T9">T9. 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>. @@ -1625,7 +1633,7 @@ will look right.<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: 1997/11/05 15:36:00 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/11/18 18:25:52 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |