From 9e69418a4b0a995f8bd371639acebc08cdeb7166 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Andree Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 22:27:03 +0000 Subject: Move TODO into todo.html. svn path=/trunk/; revision=4083 --- todo.html | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------ 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) (limited to 'todo.html') diff --git a/todo.html b/todo.html index cec412d2..38ceefae 100644 --- a/todo.html +++ b/todo.html @@ -15,15 +15,6 @@ content="Known bugs and to-do items in fetchmail" /> - - - - - - -
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Fetchmail Bugs and To-Do Items

I try to respond to urgent bug reports in a timely way. But @@ -31,6 +22,51 @@ fetchmail is now pretty mature and I have many other projects, so I don't personally chase obscure or marginal problems. Help with any of these will be cheerfully accepted.

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Serious

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SSL trust model violation: (Brian Candler) +http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2004-April/008516.html

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Let IMAP code use UID and UIDVALIDITY rather than relying on flags +that everyone can alter.

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Normal

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POP3 hang when polling mail with NUL char that is rejected (David +Greaves) https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-devel/2004-October/000154.html

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Remove spaces after MAIL FROM: or RCPT TO: et al. in BSMTP output +(sink.c)

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It has been reported that multidrop name matching fails when the +name to be matched contains a Latin-1 umlaut. Dollars to doughnuts +this is some kind of character sign-extension problem. Trouble is, +it's very likely in the BIND libraries. Someone should go in with a +debugger and check this.

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Move everything to using service strings rather that port +numbers, so we can get rid of ENABLE_INET6 everywhere but in +SockOpen (this will get rid of the kluge in rcfile_y.y).

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The +Debian bug-tracking page for fetchmail lists other bug +reports.

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Cosmetic

+ +

SSL validation prints CommonName mismatch more than once.

+ +

Alan Munday suggests message change MULTIDROP without ENVELOPE:

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+fetchmail: warning: MULTIDROP configuration for pop.example.org requires the envelope option to be set!
+fetchmail: warning: Check ENVELOPE option if fetchmail sends all mail to postmaster!
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Feature requests/Wishlist items

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Feature request from "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@RWTH-Aachen.DE> "When fetchmail downloads mail and Exim+SpamAssassin detecs an incoming message as spam, fetchmail tries to bounce it. Unfortunately it uses @@ -40,18 +76,6 @@ and fetchmail picks the internal name of my host.) So I'd like to have a config statement that allows me to explicitly set a senderaddress for bounce messages."

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POP3 can't presently distinguish a wedged or down server from an -authentication failure. Possible fix: after issuing a PASS command. -wait 300 (xx) seconds for a "-ERR" or a "+OK" . If nothing comes -back, retry at the next poll event and generate no errors. If we -get an -ERR then log an authentication failure.

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It has been reported that multidrop name matching fails when the -name to be matched contains a Latin-1 umlaut. Dollars to doughnuts -this is some kind of character sign-extension problem. Trouble is, -it's very likely in the BIND libraries. Someone should go in with a -debugger and check this.

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In the SSL support, add authentication of Certifying Authority (Is this a Certifying Authority we recognize?).

@@ -61,20 +85,12 @@ debugger and check this.

writing temporary files to nfs, and then moving them into place to ensure that they're written. Actually a hardlink is made to the temporary file and the destination name in a new directory, then -the first one is unlinked.. maybe a combination of this will help +the first one is unlinked. Maybe a combination of this will help with the fetchmail lock file."

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Move everything to using service strings rather that port -numbers, so we can get rid of ENABLE_INET6 everywhere but in -SockOpen (this will get rid of the kluge in rcfile_y.y).

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John Summerfield suggests that specifying a localname containing -@ ought to be treated as an smtpname option, with the domain part -removed for other purposes such as local-address matching.

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Maybe refuse multidrop configuration unless "envelope" is _explicitly_ configured (and tell the user he needs to configure the envelope -option) and change the envelope default to nil. This would +option) and change the envelope default to nil. This would prevent a significant class of shoot-self-in-foot problems.

Given the above change, perhaps treat a delivery as "temporarily @@ -94,7 +110,7 @@ could be alleviated by pipelining the list commands, which needs either asynchronous reading while sending the commands, or knowing the send buffer, to avoid deadlocks. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to delve deeper into the code and look around.

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Note that such a pipelining function would be of universal use, so it should not be in pop3.c or something. I'd think the best approach is to call a "sender" function with the command and a callback, and the sender @@ -105,23 +121,12 @@ callback function for each reply received.

requirements.

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The -Debian bug-tracking page for fetchmail lists other bug -reports.

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