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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 5f120d16..010275c1 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: 1998/05/14 01:35:48 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/05/16 19:17:42 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -1774,11 +1774,16 @@ If your POP3 server fails to sanity-check TOP requests and clip them at the next end-of-message, it will fetch the entire tail of the mailbox starting with the current message. The qpopper 2.41 beta 1 server is known to have this bug (though the qpopper 2.2 found on many Unixes -does not).<P> +does not). It's been reported to me that the logic changed in 2.3.<P> To work around it, set the <code>fetchall</code> option. Under POP3 only, this now has the side effect of forcing RETR use.<P> +(It is possible this tip is no longer necessary. At least one tester +has claimed that the bounds check works but was fooled by an overflow +condition in the TOP argument. Decrementing the argument may have +fixed this.)<P> + <hr> <h2><a name="O2">O2. Every time I get a POP or IMAP message the header is dumped to all my terminal sessions.</a></h2> @@ -1910,7 +1915,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.<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: 1998/05/14 01:35:48 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/05/16 19:17:42 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |