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29 <p>I try to respond to urgent bug reports in a timely way. But
30 fetchmail is now pretty mature and I have many other projects, so I
31 don't personally chase obscure or marginal problems. Help with any
32 of these will be cheerfully accepted.</p>
34 <p>POP3 can't presently distinguish a wedged or down server from an
35 authentication failure. Possible fix: after issuing a PASS command.
36 wait 300 (xx) seconds for a "-ERR" or a "+OK" . If nothing comes
37 back, retry at the next poll event and generate no errors. If we
38 get an -ERR then log an authentication failure.</p>
40 <p>It has been reported that multidrop name matching fails when the
41 name to be matched contains a Latin-1 umlaut. Dollars to doughnuts
42 this is some kind of character sign-extension problem. Trouble is,
43 it's very likely in the BIND libraries. Someone should go in with a
44 debugger and check this.</p>
46 <p>In the SSL support, add authentication of Certifying Authority
47 (Is this a Certifying Authority we recognize?).</p>
49 <p>Laszlo Vecsey writes: "I believe qmail uses a technique of
50 writing temporary files to nfs, and then moving them into place to
51 ensure that they're written. Actually a hardlink is made to the
52 temporary file and the destination name in a new directory, then
53 the first one is unlinked.. maybe a combination of this will help
54 with the fetchmail lock file."</p>
56 <p>Move everything to using service strings rather that port
57 numbers, so we can get rid of ENABLE_INET6 everywhere but in
58 SockOpen (this will get rid of the kluge in rcfile_y.y).</p>
60 <p>John Summerfield suggests that specifying a localname containing
61 @ ought to be treated as an smtpname option, with the domain part
62 removed for other purposes such as local-address matching.</p>
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