From 9a166fa8bb9444ce46deed1448ceb5b052f5334c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Andree Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:30:20 +0000 Subject: Document bad shape of BSMTP. svn path=/branches/BRANCH_6-3/; revision=5074 --- NEWS | 1 + fetchmail.man | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index bc09b0a9..a00c7d44 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ fetchmail 6.3.8 (not yet released): current release information) * fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well (See sourceforge.net bug #780933) +* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output. * Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code, diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 9423ab8e..da6202a8 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -2703,6 +2703,9 @@ configuration file. A backslash as the last character of a configuration file will be flagged as a syntax error rather than ignored. .PP +The BSMTP error handling is virtually nonexistent and may leave broken +messages behind. +.PP Send comments, bug reports, gripes, and the like to the fetchmail\-devel list . An HTML FAQ is available at the fetchmail home page; surf to -- cgit v1.2.3