From cea04b20415638302216d8930c966ee6c6fc4575 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 21:02:32 +0000 Subject: Added R8. svn path=/trunk/; revision=1356 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 19 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 1d723cfb..0831ead0 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ when I may have multiple login sessions going?
R5. Mail that was being fetched when I interrupted my fetchmail seems to have been vanished.
R6. Fetchmail dumps core when I use a .netrc file but works otherwise.
R7. All my mail seems to disappear after an interrupt.
+R8. Running fetchmail in daemon mode doesn't work.

Multidrop-mode problems:

@@ -992,6 +993,20 @@ Still, qpopper may require a noticeable amount of time to do deletions and clean up its queue. (Fetchmail waits a bit before retrying in order to avoid a `lock busy' error.)

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+

R8. Running fetchmail in daemon mode doesn't work.

+ +We have one report from a Solaris 4.1.4 user that trying to run +fetchmail in detached daemon mode doesn't work, but that using the +same options with -N (nodetach) is OK.

+ +If this happens, you have a specific portability problem with the code +in daemon.c that detaches and backgrounds the daemon fetchmail. Tell +me about it so I can try to fix it. As a workaround, you can start +fetchmail with -N and an ampersand to background it.

+ +This should not happen under Linux or any truly POSIX-conformant Unix.

+

M1. I've declared local names, but all my multidrop mail is going to root anyway.

@@ -1313,7 +1328,7 @@ template string in fetchmail.c.
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Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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