From 9c35855f27335242160126832a07e029e5b3d601 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Andree
I5. How can I use fetchmail with Hotmail or Lycos Webmail?
I6. How can I use fetchmail with MSN?
I7. How can I use fetchmail with SpryNet?
-I8. How can I use fetchmail with comcast.net?
+I8. How can I use fetchmail with comcast.net or other
+ Maillennium servers?
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Stock fetchmail will work with a comcast.net server...but -the Maillennium POP3 server comcast use seems to have an 80 kB limit on -the length of downloaded messages if you use POP3 TOP to retrieve. -Anything larger is silently truncated. Don't mistake this for a -fetchmail bug. (Reported July 2003.)
+Stock fetchmail will work with a +Maillennium POP3/PROXY server... but this server will +truncate "TOP" responses after 64&dots;82 kB (we have varying reports), +in violation of Internet Standard #53 aka. RFC-1939 (POP3). Don't +mistake this for a fetchmail bug. (Reported July 2003.) Comcast +documented they haven't understood what this is about in two +messages from April 2004.
Beginning with version 6.3.2, fetchmail will fall back to the RETR command if the greeting string contains "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", and print a warning message. This means however that fetchmail has no -means to prevent the "seen" flag from being set on the server.
+means to prevent the "seen" flag from being set on the server (Note that +officially, POP3 has no notion of seen tracking, but it works for some +sites.)Workaround for older versions: use the fetchall option.
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