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18 <p>I try to respond to urgent bug reports in a timely way. But fetchmail
19 is now pretty mature and I have many other projects, so I don't
20 personally chase obscure or marginal problems. Help with any of these
21 will be cheerfully accepted.
23 <p>Using LMTP alias with a local name that is not a full name fails horribly
24 (the LMTP port never gets stripped off the name).
26 <p>The UIDL code seems rather broken. It's a nasty swamp. Somebody who
27 actually uses it should fix it -- every time I try I seem to make
30 <p>POP3 can't presently distinguish a wedged or down server from an
31 authentication failure. Possible fix: after issuing a PASS
32 command. wait 300 (xx) seconds for a "-ERR" or a "+OK" . If nothing
33 comes back, retry at the next poll event and generate no errors. If we
34 get an -ERR then log an authentication failure.
36 <p>SMTP authentication a la RFC 2554 ought to be supported. The Exim
38 <a href="http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.10/doc/html/spec_33.html#SEC705">
39 whole chapter on this topic</a>.
41 <p>It has been reported that multidrop name matching fails when the name
42 to be matched contains a Latin-1 umlaut. Dollars to doughnuts this is
43 some kind of character sign-extension problem. Trouble is, it's very
44 likely in the BIND libraries. Someone should go in with a debugger
47 <p>In the SSL support, add authentication of Certifying Authority (Is this
48 a Certifying Authority we recognize?).
50 <p>Laszlo Vecsey writes: "I believe qmail uses a technique of writing
51 temporary files to nfs, and then moving them into place to ensure that
52 they're written. Actually a hardlink is made to the temporary file and
53 the destination name in a new directory, then the first one is
54 unlinked.. maybe a combination of this will help with the fetchmail
57 <p>Move everything to using service strings rather that port numbers, so we
58 can get rid of ENABLE_INET6 everywhere but in SockOpen (this will get
59 rid of the kluge in rcfile_y.y).
61 <p>John Summerfield suggests that specifying a localname containing @
62 ought to be treated as an smtpname option, with the domain part
63 removed for other purposes such as local-address matching.
66 href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=fetchmail&archive=no">Debian
67 bug-tracking page for fetchmail</a> lists other bug reports.
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76 <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS>