From 09b689c1098dfac919a655dff36666d9de9d125a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 06:47:21 +0000 Subject: Typo fix. svn path=/trunk/; revision=3614 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index d6ecf8fe..e670b689 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ IP address?
B1. Make coughs and dies when building on FreeBSD.
B2. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.
B3. I get link failures when I try to build fetchmail.
+B4. I get build failures in the intl directory.

Fetchmail configuration file grammar questions:

@@ -284,7 +285,7 @@ tweaking your configuration. 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. This transcript will not reveal your passwords, which are specially masked -out precisely so the transcript can be passed around. +out precisely so transcripts can be passed around.

If you upgraded your fetchmail and something broke, you should include session transcripts with -v -v of both the working and failing @@ -731,6 +732,14 @@ rcfile_y.o(.text+0xdf9): more undefined references to `dcgettext__' follow reconfigure with configure --with-included-gettext. This is due to some brain-damage in the GNU internationalization libraries. +

+

B4. I get build failures in the intl directory.

+ +

Reconfigure with --disable-nls and recompile. + +

GNU gettext is an overengineered, fragile pile of crap. I have +teetered on the brink of removing support for it entirely several times. +

F1. Why does my old .fetchmailrc file no longer work?

@@ -1820,7 +1829,7 @@ doing standard IMAP authentication, fetchmail should ssh to the server and run imapd, using the more secure ssh authentication (as well as getting ssh's end-to-end encryption). Most IMAP daemons will detect that they've been called from the command line and assume the -connection is peauthenticated. +connection is preauthenticated.

POP3 daemons aren't quite as smart. They won't know they are preauthenticated in this mode, so you'll actually have to ship your @@ -3025,7 +3034,7 @@ date from the last Received header.

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Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
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