From 5910eb73624147297a5df6752fceb27f0a24098e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 06:36:20 +0000 Subject: We shipped this. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2466 --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ fetchmail-FAQ.html | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 593df135..fc4df589 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ Release Notes: +fetchmail-5.0.3 (Sun May 2 23:39:22 EDT 1999): +* Added FAQ item about things to check if --monitor fails with pppd. +* Fixed Matthias Andree's SMTP error bug. + +There are 257 people on fetchmail-friends and 380 on fetchmail-announce. + fetchmail-5.0.2 (Thu Apr 29 22:09:46 EDT 1999): * The IMAP driver now sets SEEN at deletion time, in case the server ships DSNs when that bit is set (HP OpenMail does this). diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index bda28be3..9230a29e 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ a line hit while downloading?
O5. Why is fetched mail being logged with my name, not the real From address?
O6. I'm seeing long sendmail delays or hangs near the start of each poll cycle.
O7. Why doesn't fetchmail deliver mail in date-sorted order?
+O8. I'm using pppd. Why isn't my monitor option working?

Answers:

@@ -2323,11 +2324,23 @@ differences between the remote-fetch protocols it uses.

Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.

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O8. I'm using pppd. Why isn't my monitor option working?

+ +There is a combination of circumstances that can confuse fetchmail. +If you have set up demand dialing with pppd, and pppd has an idle +timeout, and you have lcp-echo-interval set, then the +lcp-echo-interval time must be longer than the pppd idle timeout. +Otherwise it is going keep increasing the packet counters that fetchmail +relies upon, triggering fetchmail into polling after its own delay +interval and thus preventing the pppd link from ever reaching its +inactivity timeout.

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