From 005c53ce83a7ad9b8b0dba6c92f0315391122365 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:05:22 +0000 Subject: Added B3. svn path=/trunk/; revision=966 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 19102efe..9318b607 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -9,11 +9,11 @@

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

-$Id: fetchmail-FAQ.html,v 1.6 1997/04/17 14:26:56 esr Exp $

+$Id: fetchmail-FAQ.html,v 1.7 1997/04/17 15:05:22 esr Exp $

-(Added C6 on working with qmail and -C7 on managing fetchmail in the presence of -multiple login sessions.)

+(Added B3 on broken makes, C6 +on working with qmail and C7 on managing +fetchmail in the presence of multiple login sessions.)

Before reporting any bug, please read G3 for advice on how to include diagnostic information that will get your bug fixed @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ fetchmail-friends-request@thyrsus.com.

B1. My C compiler libraries don't seem to have atexit(3).
B2. Building fetchmail fails with compiler errors in error.c.
+B3. Make doesn't know how to build rcfile_y.h or rcfile_l.h.

Fetchmail configuration file grammar questions:

@@ -206,6 +207,19 @@ We've had reports of this from under SunOS, Solaris 2.5, HP-UX and NEXTSTEP 3.3. All but the HP-UX problem seems to have abated after 3.8. You may have to turn off HAVE_VSYSLOG manually.

B3. Make doesn't know how to build rcfile_y.h or rcfile_l.h.

+ +You're probably using HP-UX or AIX. There are in fact productions in +the Makefile that describle how to make both (search for the string +"Special dependencies"), but your make is not interpreting them +correctly. Several attempts to fix this have failed. It appears these +makes are deficient or broken.

+ +The solution: install GNU make. Sources are available at the FSF archive +site, +ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu.

F1. Why does my .fetchmailrc from 2.8 or earlier no longer work?

@@ -584,15 +598,15 @@ it will add a prefix to all mail addresses for this site. This results in mail sent to 'username@userhost.userdom.dom.com' having a 'Delivered-To:' line of the form:

        Delivered-To: mbox-userstr-username@userhost.userdom.dom.com
-

+ A single host maildrop will be slightly simpler: -+

        Delivered-To: mbox-userstr-username@userhost.dom.com
-

+ The ISP can make the 'mbox-userstr-' prefix anything they choose but a string matching the user host name is likely.

@@ -614,9 +628,9 @@ setting up an alias within the qmail MTA on each local machine. Simply create a dot-qmail file called '.qmail-mbox-userstr-default' in the alias directory (normally /var/qmail/alias) with the contents:

       | ../bin/qmail-inject -a -f"$SENDER" "${LOCAL#mbox-userstr-}@$HOST}"
-

+ Note this does require a modern /bin/sh.

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