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<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
<p>Older versions of Exchange are semi-usable.
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<p>Fetchmail using IMAP supports the proprietary NTLM mode used with
M$ Exchange servers. To enable this, configure fetchmail with the
--enable-NTLM option and recompile it. Specify a user option value
that looks like `user@domain': the part to the left of the @ will
be passed as the username and the part to the right as the NTLM domain.
-<p>M$ Exchange violates the POP3 RFCs. Its LIST command does not reveal
-the real sizes of mail in the pop mailbox, but the sizes of the
-compressed versions in the exchange mail database (thanks to Arjan De
-Vet and Guido Van Rooij for alerting us to this problem).
+<p>M$ Exchange violates the POP3 and IMAP RFCs. Its LIST command does
+not reveal the real sizes of mail in the pop mailbox, but the sizes of
+the compressed versions in the exchange mail database (thanks to Arjan
+De Vet and Guido Van Rooij for alerting us to this problem).
<p>Fetchmail works with M$ Exchange, despite this brain damage. Two
features are compromised. One is that the --limit option will not
username explicitly to your mailbox name.
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-But, the best option involves a tactical nuclear weapon (an old
+<p>But, the best option involves a tactical nuclear weapon (an old
ASROC will do), pissing off a lot people who live downwind from
Redmond, and your choice of any Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, or
Solaris CD.
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<ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS>