From 4567784e2b9cd5b592b1b16056449ac24d80eedd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:29:06 +0000 Subject: Warning about Lotus Notes. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2842 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 27ba0d9e..1d51563d 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -2523,6 +2523,16 @@ headers introducing type application/pdf, mangling the type to application/octet-stream. It may corrupt other MIME types as well.

+The IMAP service of Lotus Domino has a known bug in the way it +generates MIME Content-type headers (observed on Lotus Domino 5.0.2b). +It's a subtle one that doesn't show up when Netscape Messenger and +other clients use a FETCH BODY[] to grab the whole message. When +fetchmail uses FETCH RFC822.HEADER and FETCH RFC822.TEXT to get first +the header and then the body, Domino generates different Boundary tags +for each part, .e.g. one tag is declared in the Content-type header and +another is used to separate the MIME parts in the body. This doesn't +work.

+ Rob Funk explains: Unfortunately there also remain many mail user agents that don't write correct MIME messages. One big offender is Sun MailTool attachments, which are formatted enough like MIME that some @@ -2766,7 +2776,7 @@ terminate it.

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