From 9ef66fb02cb22c301a4abfc547a7139951eea4a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:40:12 +0000
Subject: Update on exchange attachments.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=3757
---
 fetchmail-FAQ.html | 21 +++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

(limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html')

diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html
index 99725961..babc6bb8 100644
--- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html
+++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ content="Frequently asked questions about fetchmail."/>
 Page</a></td>
 <td width="30%" align="center">To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site
 Map</a></td>
-<td width="30%" align="right">$Date: 2002/10/18 11:03:00 $</td>
+<td width="30%" align="right">$Date: 2002/10/31 12:40:12 $</td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 
@@ -1608,7 +1608,9 @@ a terminating newline get the POP3 message termination dot emitted
 with no terminating newline added. This will hang fetchmail or any
 other RFC-compliant server. IMAP is alleged to work OK, though.</p>
 
-<p>Older versions of Exchange are semi-usable.</p>
+<p>Older versions of Exchange are semi-usable.  They randomly drop
+atttachments on the floor, though.  Microsoft acknowledges this
+as a known bug and apparently has no plans to fix it.</p>
 
 <p>Fetchmail using IMAP supports the proprietary NTLM mode used
 with M$ Exchange servers. To enable this, configure fetchmail with
@@ -3010,11 +3012,14 @@ only effective solution.</p>
 
 <p>We've had sporadic reports of problems with Microsoft Exchange and 
 Outlook servers.  These sometimes randomly fail to ship 
-attachments to your client.  They may also mangle the attachments 
-they do pass through.  If you see unreadable attachments with a
-ContentType of "application/x-tnef", you're having this problem.
-The <a href="http://world.std.com/~damned/software.html">TNEF</a>
-utility may help.</p>
+attachments to your client.  This is a known bug, acknowledged by
+Microsft.</p>
+
+<p>They may also mangle the attachments they do pass through.  If you
+see unreadable attachments with a ContentType of "application/x-tnef",
+you're having this problem.  The <a
+href="http://world.std.com/~damned/software.html">TNEF</a> utility may
+help.</p>
 
 <p>The Mail Max POP3 server and the InterChange and Imail IMAP
 servers are known to simply drop MIME attachments when uploading
@@ -3439,7 +3444,7 @@ get the message only once per run.</p>
 Page</a></td>
 <td width="30%" align="center">To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site
 Map</a></td>
-<td width="30%" align="right">$Date: 2002/10/18 11:03:00 $</td>
+<td width="30%" align="right">$Date: 2002/10/31 12:40:12 $</td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 
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