From 44056c3c6fda0504afe132b99739c7c0cb6f13e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 03:32:11 +0000 Subject: Note some recent problems. svn path=/trunk/; revision=3556 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index db64b9ff..a03c1eb6 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 2001/11/08 16:53:52 $ +$Date: 2001/12/14 03:32:11 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ bug report.

If your bug is something that used to work but stopped working when you upgraded, then you can help pin the bug down by trying intermediate versions of +href="ftp://ftp.ccil.org/pub/esr/fetchmail/">intermediate versions of fetchmail until you identify the revision that broke your feature. The smart way to do this is by binary search on the version sequence. First, try the version halfway between your last good one @@ -1631,6 +1631,10 @@ headers. POP (or preferably IMAP) server that isn't brain-dead. OpenMail's project manager claims these bugs have been fixed in 6.0. +

We've had a more recent report (December 2001) that the TOP command +fails, returning only one line regrardless of its argument, on something +identifying itself as "OpenMail POP3 interface". +

S7. How can I use fetchmail with geocities POP3 servers?

@@ -2366,8 +2370,8 @@ the server was processing multiple incoming mail streams.

I could eliminate this problem by keeping a list of all message-IDs received during a poll so far and dropping any message that matches a -seen mail ID. The touble is that this is an O(N**2) operation that -might significantly slow down the retriweval of large mail batches. +seen mail ID. The trouble is that this is an O(N**2) operation that +might significantly slow down the retrieval of large mail batches.

X1. Spurious blank lines are appearing in the headers of fetched mail.

@@ -2925,7 +2929,7 @@ date from the last Received header.

Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 2001/11/08 16:53:52 $ +$Date: 2001/12/14 03:32:11 $

Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
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