From bb52a28eeb1de74af90f592057e3854cdee2f800 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 02:13:55 +0000 Subject: *** empty log message *** svn path=/trunk/; revision=2751 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 78ed54e0..9fe1864a 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 2000/02/12 06:02:32 $ +$Date: 2000/02/15 02:13:55 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -32,13 +32,14 @@ mail it to fetchmail's maintainer, Eric S. Raymond, at G5. Is there a mailing list for exchanging tips?
G6. So, what's this I hear about a fetchmail paper?
G7. What is the best server to use with fetchmail?
-G8. How can I avoid sending my password en clair?
-G9. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic +G8. What is the best mail program to use with fetchmail?
+G9. How can I avoid sending my password en clair?
+G10. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic IP address?
-G10. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?
-G11. Is any special configuration needed to send mail?
-G12. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?
-G13. Is there a way in fetchmail to support disconnected IMAP mode?
+G11. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?
+G12. Is any special configuration needed to send mail?
+G13. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?
+G14. Is there a way in fetchmail to support disconnected IMAP mode?

Build-time problems:

@@ -387,7 +388,24 @@ The 2.5.2 version appears to restore the open-source license of previous versions.

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G8. How can I avoid sending my password en clair?

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G8. What is the best mail program to use with fetchmail?

+ +Fetchmail will work with all popular mail transport programs. +It also doesn't care which user agent you use, and user agents are as a +rule almost equally indifferent to how mail is delivered into your system +mailbox. So any of the popular Unix mail agents -- elm, pine, mh, or +mutt -- will work fine with fetchmail.

+ +All this having been said, I can't resist putting in a discreet plug +for mutt. My own personal mail +setup is sendmail plus fetchmail plus mutt. Mutt's interface is only +a little different from that of its now-moribund ancestor elm, but its +excellent handling of MIME and PGP put it in a class by itself. You +won't need its built-in POP3 support, though; most of the mutt +developers will cheerfully admit that fetchmail's is better :-).

+ +

+

G9. How can I avoid sending my password en clair?

Depending on what your mail server you are talking to, this ranges from trivial to impossible. It may even be next to useless.

@@ -479,7 +497,7 @@ because this is how Craig gets his mail ;-)

restrictions.)

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G9. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic IP address?

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G10. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic IP address?

Yes. In order to avoid giving indigestion to certain picky MTAs (notably exim), fetchmail always makes the RCPT TO @@ -539,7 +557,7 @@ See the sendmail FAQ for more details.

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G10. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?

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G11. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?

No. You can use fetchmail with SOCKS, the standard tool for indirecting TCP/IP through a firewall. You can find out about SOCKS, @@ -562,7 +580,7 @@ will be happier.''

I couldn't have put it better myself, and ain't going to try now.

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G11. Is any special configuration needed to send mail?

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G12. Is any special configuration needed to send mail?

A user asks: but how do we send mail out to the POP3 server? Do I need to implement another tool or will fetchmail do this too?

@@ -580,7 +598,7 @@ automatically dial out when your kernel is called to open a TCP/IP connection, this will ensure that the mail gets out.

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G12. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?

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G13. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?

Fetchmail is fully Y2K-compliant.

@@ -590,7 +608,7 @@ for anything but log entry generation. Anyway, if you aren't running on a 64-bit machine by then, you deserve to lose.

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G13. Is there a way in fetchmail to support disconnected IMAP mode?

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G14. Is there a way in fetchmail to support disconnected IMAP mode?

No. Fetchmail is a mail transport agent, best understood as a protocol gateway between POP3/IMAP servers and SMTP. Disconnected operation @@ -2591,7 +2609,7 @@ terminate it.

Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 2000/02/12 06:02:32 $ +$Date: 2000/02/15 02:13:55 $

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