From 2828061418edd4d90ae66660c686893f85803aa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 07:45:09 +0000 Subject: FAQ cleanups. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2124 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 20 +++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 9f637124..001776d9 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/10/17 16:24:27 $ +$Date: 1998/10/20 07:45:09 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ my Received headers as it should. X4. My mail is being mangled in a new and different way.
X5. Using POP3, retrievals seems to be fetching too much!
-

Other Problems:

+

Other problems:

O1. The --logfile option doesn't work if the logfile doesn't exist.
O2. Every time I get a POP or IMAP message the header is @@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ greeting line. If that's found, and your user ID ends with is RPA-capable, and if so do an RPA transaction rather than a plain-text password handshake.

-Warning: the verbose output of fetchmail will show +Warning: the debug (-v -v) output of fetchmail will show your pass-phrase in Unicode!

These two .fetchmailrc entries show the difference between an RPA and @@ -1238,8 +1238,6 @@ Fetchmail normally uses TOP for message retrieval in order to avoid marking messages seen, but `fetchall' forces it to use RETR instead.

-So, set the `fetchall' option.

- (Note: Other failure modes have been reported on usa.net's servers. They seem to be chronically flaky. We recommend finding another provider.)

@@ -1449,7 +1447,7 @@ it requires libraries from the Kerberos V distribution (available via FTP at but mind the export restrictions). If you have these, compiling in GSS support is simple: add a 

--with-gssapi=[/path/to/krb5/root]
option to configure. For instance, I have all of my kerberos V libraries installed under -/usr/krb5 so I run 
configure --with-gssapi=/usr/krb5
.

+/usr/krb5 so I run 

configure --with-gssapi=/usr/krb5

Setting up Kerberos V authentication is beyond the scope of this FAQ (you may find Jim Rome's paper Qualcomm's qpopper, used at many BSD Unix sites, is better behaved. -If its connection is dropped, it will first execute all DELE commands (as -though you had issued a QUIT -- this is a technical violation of +If its connection is dropped, it will first execute all DELE commands as +though you had issued a QUIT (this is a technical violation of the POP3 RFCs, but a good idea in a world of flaky phone lines). Then it will re-queue any message that was being downloaded at hangup time. Still, qpopper may require a noticeable amount of time to do deletions @@ -1689,7 +1687,7 @@ mailbox forever.

Workaround: add the `fetchall' keyword to your fetch options.

-Solution: switch to an IMAP server.

+Solution: switch to an IMAP4 server.

M1. I've declared local names, but all my multidrop @@ -1845,7 +1843,7 @@ inside pop3 server with fetchmail and sendmail 8.83

-

M7. Multidrop mode isn't parsing envelope addresses from +

M7. Multidrop mode isn't parsing envelope addresses from my Received headers as it should.

It may happen that you're getting what appear to be well-formed @@ -2184,7 +2182,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.

Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/10/17 16:24:27 $ +$Date: 1998/10/20 07:45:09 $

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