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<h1>How to make fetchmail work with various servers:</h1>
<a href="#S1">S1. How can I use fetchmail with qpopper?</a><br/>
-<a href="#S2">S2. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft
-Exchange?</a><br/>
-<a href="#S3">S3. How can I use fetchmail with Compuserve
-RPA?</a><br/>
-<a href="#S4">S4. How can I use fetchmail with Demon Internet's
-SDPS?</a><br/>
-<a href="#S5">S5. How can I use fetchmail with usa.net's
-servers?</a><br/>
-<a href="#S6">S6. How can I use fetchmail with HP
-OpenMail?</a><br/>
-<a href="#S7">S7. How can I use fetchmail with geocities POP3
-servers?</a><br/>
+<a href="#S2">S2. How can I use fetchmail with Microsoft Exchange?</a><br/>
+<a href="#S3">S3. How can I use fetchmail with Compuserve RPA?</a><br/>
+<a href="#S4">S4. How can I use fetchmail with Demon Internet's SDPS?</a><br/>
+<a href="#S5">S5. How can I use fetchmail with usa.net's servers?</a><br/>
+<a href="#S6">S6. How can I use fetchmail with HP OpenMail?</a><br/>
+<a href="#S7">S7. How can I use fetchmail with geocities POP3 servers?</a><br/>
<a href="#S8">S8. How can I use fetchmail with Hotmail?</a><br/>
<a href="#S9">S9. How can I use fetchmail with MSN?</a><br/>
<a href="#S10">S10. How can I use fetchmail with SpryNet?</a><br/>
<a href="#S11">S11. How can I use fetchmail with FTGate?</a><br/>
<a href="#S12">S12. How can I use fetchmail with MailMax?</a><br/>
-<a href="#S13">S13. How can I use fetchmail with Novell
-GroupWise?</a><br/>
-<a href="#S14">S14. How can I use fetchmail with
-InterChange?</a><br/>
-<a href="#S15">S15. How can I use fetchmail with GMX?</a><br/>
-
+<a href="#S13">S13. How can I use fetchmail with Novell GroupWise?</a><br/>
+<a href="#S14">S14. How can I use fetchmail with InterChange?</a><br/>
+<a href="#S15">S15. How can I use fetchmail with www.gmx.de?</a><br/>
<h1>How to set up well-known security and authentication
methods:</h1>
<a href="#K1">K1. How can I use fetchmail with SOCKS?</a><br/>
-<a href="#K2">K2. How can I use fetchmail with IPv6 and
-IPsec?</a><br/>
-<a href="#K3">K3. How can I get fetchmail to work with
-ssh?</a><br/>
-<a href="#K4">K4. What do I have to do to use the IMAP-GSS
-protocol?</a><br/>
+<a href="#K2">K2. How can I use fetchmail with IPv6 and IPsec?</a><br/>
+<a href="#K3">K3. How can I get fetchmail to work with ssh?</a><br/>
+<a href="#K4">K4. What do I have to do to use the IMAP-GSS protocol?</a><br/>
<a href="#K5">K5. How can I use fetchmail with SSL?</a><br/>
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<h1>Runtime fatal errors:</h1>
normally otherwise.</a><br/>
<a href="#R5">R5. Running fetchmail in daemon mode doesn't
work.</a><br/>
-<a href="#R6">R6. Fetchmail randomly dies with socket
-errors.</a><br/>
+<a href="#R6">R6. Fetchmail randomly dies with socket errors.</a><br/>
<a href="#R7">R7. Fetchmail running as root stopped working after
an OS upgrade</a><br/>
<a href="#R8">R8. Fetchmail is timing out after fetching certain
messages but before deleting them</a><br/>
-<a href="#R9">R9. Fetchmail is timing out during message
-fetches</a><br/>
+<a href="#R9">R9. Fetchmail is timing out during message fetches</a><br/>
<a href="#R10">R10. Fetchmail is dying with SIGPIPE.</a><br/>
-<a href="#R11">R11. My server is hanging up or emitting errors on
-CAPA.</a><br/>
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-
+<a href="#R11">R11. My server is hanging or emitting errors on CAPA.</a><br/>
<h1>Hangs and lockups:</h1>
<a href="#H1">H1. Fetchmail hangs when used with pppd.</a><br/>
<tt>fetchall</tt> option.</p>
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-<h2><a id="S13" name="S13">S13. How can I use fetchmail with Novell
-GroupWise?</a></h2>
+<h2><a id="S13" name="S13">S13. How can I use fetchmail with Novell GroupWise?</a></h2>
<p>The Novell GroupWise IMAP server would be better named
GroupFoolish; it is (according to the designer of IMAP) unusably
me that their new 3.61.08 release of InterChange fixes this
problem. I don't have any reports one way or the other yet.</p>
-<h2><a id="S15" name="S15">S15. How can I use fetchmail with
-GMX?</a></h2>
+<h2><a id="S15" name="S15">S15. How can I use fetchmail with www.gmx.de?</a></h2>
-<p>Use IMAP. The GMX StreamProxy server behaves badly on
-authentication failures, sending back a non-conformant error
+<p>You can't, not reliably anyway. The GMX StreamProxy server behaves
+badly on authentication failures, sending back a non-conformant error
message (missing an <code>-ERR</code> tag) that confuses
fetchmail.</p>
at start of a text line.</p>
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-<h2><a id="R11" name="R11">R11. My server is hanging up or emitting
+<h2><a id="R11" name="R11">R11. My server is hanging or emitting
errors on CAPA.</a></h2>
<p>Your POP3 server is broken. You can work around this with the
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