From 86855b6286eb07133b0dfa1a7476ccd07f38ae30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 18:43:20 +0000 Subject: Another update. svn path=/trunk/; revision=1917 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 4670a569..9d487487 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/06/05 17:23:28 $ +$Date: 1998/06/05 18:43:20 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ sources? The latest HTML FAQ is available alongside the latest fetchmail sources at the fetchmail home page: -http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail. You can also find +http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail. You can also usually find both in the POP mail tools directory on Sunsite.

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ upgrade to the newest version, and then see if the problem reproduces. So you'll probably save us both time if you upgrade and test with the latest version before sending in a bug report.

-It is helpful if you include your .fetchmailrc, but not necessary +It is helpful if you include your .fetchmailrc file, but not necessary unless your symptom seems to involve an error in configuration parsing.

If fetchmail seems to run and fetch mail, but the headers look mangled @@ -195,7 +195,9 @@ tweaking your configuration.

A transcript of the failed session with -v on is almost always useful. It is very important that the transcript include your POP/IMAP server's -greeting line, so I can identify it in case of server problems.

+greeting line, so I can identify it in case of server problems. Doing +this will not reveal your passwords, which are specially masked +out precisely so the transcript can be passed around.

If the bug involves a core dump or hang, a gdb stack trace is good to have. (Bear in mind that you can attach gdb to a running but hung process by @@ -299,7 +301,8 @@ Most modern Unixes (and effectively all Linux/*BSD systems) come with POP3 support preconfigured (but beware of the horribly broken POP3 server mentioned in D2). An increasing minority also feature IMAP (you can detect IMAP support by running fetchmail in -AUTO mode).

+AUTO mode, or by using the `Probe for a server' function in the +fetchmailconf utility).

If you have the option, we recommend using or installing IMAP4rev1; it has the best facilities for tracking message `seen' states. It also @@ -1951,7 +1954,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.

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