From 7de9f6e9e73c5899f96dddac3a911b9437c9cba6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:21:37 +0000 Subject: Added item X5. svn path=/trunk/; revision=1751 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 2bcf3923..dfc6ebd5 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/04/19 04:13:01 $ +$Date: 1998/04/19 22:21:37 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ when I may have multiple login sessions going?
X2. My mail client can't see a Subject line.
X3. Messages containing "From" at start of line are being split.
X4. My mail is being mangled in a new and different way.
+X5. Using POP3, retrievals seems to be fetching too much!

Other Problems:

@@ -1761,6 +1762,23 @@ without hacking potentially fragile startup scripts. To get around it, just touch(1) the logfile before you run fetchmail (this will have no effect on the contents of the logfile if it already exists).

+

+

X5. Using POP3, retrievals seems to be fetching too much!

+ +This may happen in versions of fetchmail after 4.4.1, which use POP3's +TOP command rather than RETR in order to avoid marking the message +seen (leaving it unseen is helpful for later recovery if you lose your +connection in the middle of a retrieval).

+ +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).

+ +To work around it, set the fetchall option. Under POP3 +only, this now has the side effect of forcing RETR use.

+

O2. Every time I get a POP or IMAP message the header is dumped to all my terminal sessions.

@@ -1892,7 +1910,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.

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