From f35ea15b76a5e1883e0c9fe259a3572f8d75bea7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 19:17:42 +0000 Subject: Better fix for qpopper TOP problem. svn path=/trunk/; revision=1790 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 5f120d16..010275c1 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/05/14 01:35:48 $ +$Date: 1998/05/16 19:17:42 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -1774,11 +1774,16 @@ If your POP3 server fails to sanity-check TOP requests and clip them at the next end-of-message, it will fetch the entire tail of the mailbox starting with the current message. The qpopper 2.41 beta 1 server is known to have this bug (though the qpopper 2.2 found on many Unixes -does not).

+does not). It's been reported to me that the logic changed in 2.3.

To work around it, set the fetchall option. Under POP3 only, this now has the side effect of forcing RETR use.

+(It is possible this tip is no longer necessary. At least one tester +has claimed that the bounds check works but was fooled by an overflow +condition in the TOP argument. Decrementing the argument may have +fixed this.)

+

O2. Every time I get a POP or IMAP message the header is dumped to all my terminal sessions.

@@ -1910,7 +1915,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.

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