From f2977cd596d07212166e6ccad6dbd374923b26ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 03:58:08 +0000 Subject: Added O7. svn path=/trunk/; revision=1590 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index c5281161..51b4dbb4 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ dumped to all my terminal sessions.
a line hit while downloading?
O5. Why is fetched mail being logged with my name, not the real From address?
O6. I'm seeing long sendmail delays at start of each poll cycle.
+O7. Why doesn't fetchmail deliver mail in date-sorted order?

Answers:

@@ -1673,11 +1674,28 @@ Configuring your bind library to cache DNS lookups locally may help, and is a good idea for speeding up other services as well. Switching to a faster MTA like qmail or exim might help.

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O7. Why doesn't fetchmail deliver mail in date-sorted order?

+ +Because that's not the order the server hands it to fetchmail in.

+ +Fetchmail getting mail from a POP server delivers mail in the order +that your server delivers mail. Fetchmail can't do anything about +this; it's a limitation of the underlying POP protocol.

+ +In theory it might be possible for fetchmail in IMAP mode to sort +messages by date, but this would be in violation of two basics of +fetchmail's design philosophy: (a) to be as simple and transparent a +pipe as possible, and (b) to hide, rather than emphasize, the +differences between the remote-fetch protocols it uses.

+ +Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.

+

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