From 0b4ddfc4c16f880a55e5de8833df1716e899b5cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:00:02 +0000 Subject: Add a FAQ item. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2092 --- NEWS | 14 +++++++------- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 36d5c84b..edac5f99 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ fetchmail-4.6.2 (): * Time out server open requests like we do reads. This protects against buggy TCP/IP configurations that hang forever on a bad open. -* The '--limit' option can now be used with daemon mode. -* Implementation of a warning procedure to notify a user that some messages - are being skipped on the mail server; the user get notified by an E-Mail - that mentions all the messages being skipped (including their size). - (Implementation is thanks to Marc Jauvin). -* A -w/--warnings parameter can be set on the command line to specify at - what interval size warnings are sent to the user (default = 3600 sec). +* The '--limit' option can now be used with daemon mode. The user is notfied + that some messages are being skipped on the mail server; the user get + notified by email that mentions all the messages being skipped (including + their size). A -w/--warnings per-user option specifies at what intervals + size warnings are sent to the user (default = 3600 sec). +* Added FAQ item M7 on diagnosing failures to extract envelope addresses + from sendmail trace headers. There are 255 people on fetchmail-friends and 293 on fetchmail-announce. diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 68dc430c..3d5bb89e 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/10/12 16:01:54 $ +$Date: 1998/10/16 14:00:02 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ IP address?
M4. My multidrop fetchmail seems to be having DNS problems.
M5. I'm seeing long DNS delays before each message is processed.
M6. How do I get multidrop mode to work with majordomo? +M7. Multidrop mode isn't parsing envelope addresses from +my Received headers as it should.

Mangled mail:

@@ -1839,6 +1841,43 @@ user+domain and service about 30 mail accounts + majordomo on my inside pop3 server with fetchmail and sendmail 8.83

+

+

M7. Multidrop mode isn't parsing envelope addresses from +my Received headers as it should.

+ +It may happen that you're getting what appear to be well-formed +sendmail Received headers, but fetchmail can't seem to extract an +envelope address from them. There can be a couple of reasons for +this.

+ +

Spurious Received lines need to be skipped:

+ +First, fetchmail might be looking at the wrong Received header. +Normally it looks only on the first one it sees, on the theory that +that one was last added and is going to be the one containing your +mailserver's theory of who the message was addressed to.

+ +Some (unusual) mailserver configurations will generate extra Received +lines which you need to skip. To arrange this, use the optional +skip prefix argument of the `envelope' option; you may need to say +something like `envelope 1 Received' or `envelope 2 +Received'. + +

The `by' clause doesn't contain a mailserver alias:

+ +When fetchmail parses a Received line that looks like + +
+Received: from send103.yahoomail.com (send103.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.92])
+    by iserv.ttns.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA10088
+    for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:01:59 -0700
+
+ +it checks to see if `iserv.ttns.net' is a DNS alias of your mailserver +before accepting `ksturgeon@fbceg.org' as an envelope address. This +check might fail if your DNS were misconfigured, or if you were using `no dns' +and had failed to declare iserv.ttns.net as an alias of your server.

+

X1. Spurious blank lines are appearing in the headers of fetched mail.

@@ -2142,7 +2181,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.

Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/10/12 16:01:54 $ +$Date: 1998/10/16 14:00:02 $

Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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