From 5910eb73624147297a5df6752fceb27f0a24098e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 06:36:20 +0000 Subject: We shipped this. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2466 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index bda28be3..9230a29e 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ a line hit while downloading?
O5. Why is fetched mail being logged with my name, not the real From address?
O6. I'm seeing long sendmail delays or hangs near the start of each poll cycle.
O7. Why doesn't fetchmail deliver mail in date-sorted order?
+O8. I'm using pppd. Why isn't my monitor option working?

Answers:

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Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.

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O8. I'm using pppd. Why isn't my monitor option working?

+ +There is a combination of circumstances that can confuse fetchmail. +If you have set up demand dialing with pppd, and pppd has an idle +timeout, and you have lcp-echo-interval set, then the +lcp-echo-interval time must be longer than the pppd idle timeout. +Otherwise it is going keep increasing the packet counters that fetchmail +relies upon, triggering fetchmail into polling after its own delay +interval and thus preventing the pppd link from ever reaching its +inactivity timeout.

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