From cd46961ec2a691ad01a60af6a40314ded4c27e88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 18:49:10 +0000 Subject: This version is good. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2309 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 22 +++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index e9c7e2a7..3fd20524 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/12/30 18:15:59 $ +$Date: 1999/01/01 18:49:09 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ IP address?
D1. I think I've set up fetchmail correctly, but I'm not getting any mail.
D2. All my mail seems to disappear after a dropped connection.
-D3. Mail that was being fetched when I interrupted my fetchmail seems to have been vanished.
+D3. Mail that was being fetched when I interrupted my fetchmail seems to have been vanished.

Multidrop-mode problems:

@@ -107,9 +107,9 @@ IP address?
M3. I tried to run a mailing list using multidrop, and I have a mail loop!
M4. My multidrop fetchmail seems to be having DNS problems.
M5. I'm seeing long DNS delays before each message is processed.
-M6. How do I get multidrop mode to work with majordomo? +M6. How do I get multidrop mode to work with majordomo?
M7. Multidrop mode isn't parsing envelope addresses from -my Received headers as it should. +my Received headers as it should.

Mangled mail:

@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ Only one fetchmail option interacts directly with your IP address, `interface'. This option can be used to set the gateway device and restrict the IP address range fetchmail will use. Such a restriction is sometimes useful for security reasons, especially on -multihomed sites. See C3.

+multihomed sites. See C3.

I recommend against trying to set up the interface option when initially developing your poll configuration -- it's never @@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ filter rules. The human-readable form of the database is at /etc/mail/deny. The database itself is at /etc/mail/deny.db.

-

The table itself uses email addresses, domain names, and network +The table itself uses email addresses, domain names, and network numbers as keys. For example,

 spammer@aol.com         REJECT
@@ -1309,7 +1309,7 @@ and set the makefile up to link it.  You can also specify a directory
 containing the Rconnect library.

 
 

-
S6. How can I use fetchmail with geocities POP3 servers?

+
S6. How can I use fetchmail with geocities POP3 servers?

 
 Nathan Cutler reports that the the mail.geocities.com POP3 servers
 fail to include the first Received line of the message in the send to 
@@ -1615,7 +1615,7 @@ match what you sent, then fetchmail or something on the server is
 broken.

 
 

-
R3. Fetchmail dumps core when given an invalid rc file.

+
R3. Fetchmail dumps core when given an invalid rc file.

 
 This is usually reported from AIX or Ultrix, but has even been known
 to happen on Linuxes without a recent version of flex
@@ -1899,7 +1899,7 @@ says:

 

 I use this scheme with 2 virtual domains and the default ISP 
 user+domain and service about 30 mail accounts + majordomo on my 
-inside pop3 server with fetchmail and sendmail 8.83

+inside pop3 server with fetchmail and sendmail 8.83
 

 
 

@@ -1931,7 +1931,7 @@ When fetchmail parses a Received line that looks like
 
 Received: from send103.yahoomail.com (send103.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.92])
     by iserv.ttns.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA10088
-    for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:01:59 -0700
+    for <ksturgeon@fbceg.org>; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:01:59 -0700
 

 
 it checks to see if `iserv.ttns.net' is a DNS alias of your mailserver
@@ -2244,7 +2244,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.

 

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-$Date: 1998/12/30 18:15:59 $
+$Date: 1999/01/01 18:49:09 $
 

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

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