From 7db729877dd255029ce846414ddab872ac8dc146 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:42:38 +0000 Subject: Workaround for GroupWise. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2586 --- fetchmailconf | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmailconf') diff --git a/fetchmailconf b/fetchmailconf index d64910e9..a02b5337 100755 --- a/fetchmailconf +++ b/fetchmailconf @@ -1127,11 +1127,15 @@ this server. """ if string.find(greetline, "GroupWise") > 0: warnings = warnings + """ -You appear to be using the Novell GroupWise IMAP server. This server would -be better named GroupFoolish; according to the designer of IMAP it is unusably -broken. The specific problem is that it doesn't include a required content -length in its BODY[TEXT] response, so fetchmail can't know how much content -to fetch. +The Novell GroupWise IMAP server would be better named GroupFoolish; +it is (according to the designer of IMAP) unusably broken. Among +other things, it doesn't include a required content length in its +BODY[TEXT] response.

+ +Fetchmail works around this problem, but we strongly recommend voting +with your dollars for a server that isn't brain-dead. If you stick +with code as shoddy as GroupWise seems to be, you will probably pay +for it with other problems.

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