From cc511848d54b063d74278e80308d99ddbdc37ab3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:54:37 +0000 Subject: Updates. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2594 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 5ef38c41..acb5bbcb 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1999/09/23 12:48:32 $ +$Date: 1999/09/23 20:54:37 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -329,17 +329,18 @@ Here's a longer answer:

Fetchmail will work with any POP, IMAP, or ESMTP/ETRN server that conforms to the relevant RFCs (and even some outright broken ones like -Microsoft Exchange). This doesn't mean it works -equally well with all, however. POP2 servers, and POP3 servers -without LAST, limit fetchmail's capabilities in various ways described -on the manual page.

+Microsoft Exchange and Novell +GroupWise). This doesn't mean it works equally well with all, +however. POP2 servers, and POP3 servers without LAST, limit +fetchmail's capabilities in various ways described on the manual +page.

Most modern Unixes (and effectively all Linux/*BSD systems) come with POP3 support preconfigured (but beware of the horribly broken POP3 server mentioned in D2). An increasing minority also feature IMAP (you can detect IMAP support by running fetchmail in -AUTO mode, or by using the `Probe for a server' function in the -fetchmailconf utility).

+AUTO mode, or by using the `Probe for supported protocols' function in +the fetchmailconf utility).

If you have the option, we recommend using or installing an IMAP4rev1 server; it has the best facilities for tracking message `seen' states. @@ -365,8 +366,7 @@ Source for a high-quality supported implementation of POP is available from the Eudora FTP site. Don't use 2.5, which has a rather restrictive license. The 2.5.2 version appears to restore the open-source license of -previous versions. -

+previous versions.

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

@@ -430,7 +430,8 @@ AUTH=KERBEROS_V4 in the CAPABILITY response.

If you are fetching mail from a CompuServe POP3 account, you can use their RPA authentication (which works much like APOP). See S3 for details.

+href="#S3">S3 for details. If you are fetching mail from +Microsoft Exchange, you will be able to use NTLM.

Your POP3 server may have the RFC1938 OTP capability to use one-time passwords (if it doesn't, you can get OTP patches for the 2.2 version @@ -440,7 +441,7 @@ and your fetchmail was built with OPIE support compiled in (see the distribution INSTALL file), fetchmail will detect it also. When using OTP, you will specify a password but it will not be sent en clair.

-Sadly, there is at present (July 1998) no OTP or APOP-like +Sadly, there is at present (September 1999) no OTP or APOP-like facility generally available on IMAP servers. However, there do exist patches which will OTP-enable the University of Washington IMAP daemon, version 4.2-FINAL. And we have a report that the GSSAPI @@ -459,7 +460,8 @@ not currently a standard way to do this; fetchmail also uses this method, so the two will interoperate happily. They better, because this is how Craig gets his mail ;-)

-(One important win of OTP is that it's not subject to EAR restrictions.)

+(One important win of OTP is that it's not subject to U.S. export +restrictions.)

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

@@ -567,9 +569,10 @@ connection, this will ensure that the mail gets out.

Fetchmail is fully Y2K-compliant.

-Fetchmail could theoretically have problems when the 32-bit time_t's roll -over in 2038, but I doubt it. Timestamps aren't used for anything but -log entry generation.

+Fetchmail could theoretically have problems when the 32-bit time_t +counters roll over in 2038, but I doubt it. Timestamps aren't used +for anything but log entry generation. Anyway, if you aren't running +on a 64-bit machine by then, you deserve to lose.

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

@@ -1412,7 +1415,7 @@ headers.

As with M$ Exchange, the only real fix for these problems is to get a POP (or preferably IMAP) server that isn't brain-dead. OpenMail's -project manager claims these bugs have been fixed in 6.0

+project manager claims these bugs have been fixed in 6.0.

S8. How can I use fetchmail with Hotmail?

@@ -1506,8 +1509,8 @@ Replace \t with exactly one tabulation character. You should also consider using "fetchall" option because Geocities' servers sometimes think that the first 45 messages have already been read.

-Fix: Get an email provider that doesn't suck. Geocities' pop-up adds -are lame, you should boycott them anyway.

+Fix: Get an email provider that doesn't suck. The pop-up ads on +Geocities are lame, you should boycott them anyway.

K2. How can I use fetchmail with IPv6 and IPsec?

@@ -2493,7 +2496,7 @@ inactivity timeout.

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