From 53813c522b794b61c7080c40f95a1043912b2dcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 21:19:46 +0000 Subject: Warn about pop3ad server. svn path=/trunk/; revision=3038 --- fetchmailconf | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fetchmailconf b/fetchmailconf index 773a7698..a794ae69 100755 --- a/fetchmailconf +++ b/fetchmailconf @@ -1214,8 +1214,8 @@ SunOS and Solaris machines run cucipop OK. """ if string.find(greetline, "David POP3 Server") > 0: warnings = warnings + """ -This POP3 serrver is badly broken. You should get rid of it -- and the -brain-dead NT operating system it rode in on. +This POP3 server is badly broken. You should get rid of it -- and the +brain-dead Microsoft operating system it rode in on. """ # The greeting line on the server known to be buggy is: @@ -1235,6 +1235,14 @@ only the header and first line of each message is retrieved. To work around this bug, turn on `fetchall' on all user entries associated with this server. +""" + if string.find(greetline, "Escape character is") > 0: + warnings = warnings + """ +Your greeting line looks like it was written by a fetid pile of +camel dung identified to me as `popa3d written by Solar Designer'. +Beware! The UIDL support in this thing is known to be completely broken, +and other things probably are too. + """ if string.find(greetline, "POP-Max") > 0: warnings = warnings + """ -- cgit v1.2.3