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bug fixed as quickly as possible.</p>
<p>If you have a question or answer you think ought to be added to
-this FAQ list, mail it to fetchmail's maintainer, Eric S. Raymond,
-at <a href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">esr@thyrsus.com</a>.</p>
+this FAQ list, file it to one of the trackers at <a
+ href="http://developer.berlios.de/projects/fetchmail/">our BerliOS
+ project site</a> or post to one of the fetchmail mailing lists (see
+below).</p>
<h1>General questions:</h1>
<a href="#G14">G14. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?</a><br/>
<a href="#G15">G15. Is there a way in fetchmail to support disconnected IMAP mode?</a><br/>
<a href="#G16">G16. How will fetchmail perform under heavy loads?</a><br/>
-
+
<h1>Build-time problems:</h1>
<a href="#B2">B2. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.</a><br/>
<a href="#B3">B3. I get link failures when I try to build fetchmail.</a><br/>
<a href="#B4">B4. I get build failures in the intl directory.</a><br/>
-
+
<h1>Fetchmail configuration file grammar questions:</h1>
<a href="#F1">F1. Why does my old .fetchmailrc no longer work?</a><br/>
from an init script.</a><br/>
<a href="#C7">C7. How can I forward mail to another
host?.</a><br/>
-
+
<h1>How to make fetchmail play nice with various MTAs:</h1>
<a href="#H2">H2. Fetchmail hangs during the MAIL FROM
exchange.</a><br/>
<a href="#H3">H3. Fetchmail hangs while fetching mail.</a><br/>
-
+
<h1>Disappearing mail:</h1>
connection.</a><br/>
<a href="#D3">D3. Mail that was being fetched when I interrupted my
fetchmail seems to have been vanished.</a><br/>
-
+
<h1>Multidrop-mode problems:</h1>
from my Received headers as it should.</a><br/>
<a href="#M8">M8. Users are getting multiple copies of
messages.</a><br/>
-
+
<h1>Mangled mail:</h1>
<a href="#X7">X7. Some mail attachments are hanging
fetchmail.</a><br/>
<a href="#X8">X8. A spurious ) is being appended to my
-messages.</a><br/>
+messages.</a><br/>
<h1>Other problems:</h1>
<p>Yes I will, provided you include enough diagnostic information
for me to go on. Send bugs to <a
-href="mailto:fetchmail-friends@ccil.org">fetchmail-friends</a>.
+href="mailto:fetchmail-users@lists.berlios.de">fetchmail-users</a>.
When reporting bugs, please include the following:</p>
<ol>
<p>If your bug is something that used to work but stopped working
when you upgraded, then you can help pin the bug down by trying <a
-href="ftp://ftp.ccil.org/pub/esr/fetchmail/">intermediate versions
+href="http://download.berlios.de/fetchmail/">intermediate versions
of fetchmail</a> until you identify the revision that broke your
feature. The smart way to do this is by binary search on the
version sequence. First, try the version halfway between your last
features (such as password encryption, or multiple concurrent polls
from the same instance of fetchmail) see <a
href="esrs-design-notes.html">ESR's design
-notes</a>. Note that this document is partially obsoleted by the
+notes</a>. Note that this document is partially obsoleted by the
<a href="design-notes.html">updated design notes.</a></p>
<p>Fetchmail is a mature project, no longer in constant active
<h2><a id="G6" name="G6">G6. Is there a mailing list for exchanging
tips?</a></h2>
-<p>There is a fetchmail-friends list
-(fetchmail-friends@lists.ccil.org) for people who want to discuss
+<p>There is a fetchmail-users list (fetchmail-users@lists.berlios.de)
+for bug reports and people who want to discuss configuration issues of
+fetchmail. It's a Mailman list, see <a
+ href="http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-users">http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-users</a>.</p>
+<p>There is a fetchmail-devel list
+(fetchmail-devel@lists.berlios.de) for people who want to discuss
fixes and improvements in fetchmail and help co-develop it. It's a
-Mail
Man list, which you can sign up for at <a
-href="http://lists.ccil.org/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-friends">http://lists.ccil.org/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-friends</a>.
+Mail
man list, which you can sign up for at <a
+href="http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-devel">http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-devel</a>.
There is also an announcements-only list,
-fetchmail-announce@lists.
ccil.org, which you can sign up for at <a
-href="http://lists.ccil.org/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-announce">http://lists.ccil.org/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-announce</a>.</p>
+fetchmail-announce@lists.
berlios.de, which you can sign up for at <a
+href="http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-announce">http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-announce</a>.</p>
<hr/>
<h2><a id="G7" name="G7">G7. So, what's this I hear about a
<pre>
H?J?Delivered-To: $u
-Mmdrop, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMqSPfhnu9J,
+Mmdrop, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMqSPfhnu9J,
S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, R=EnvToSMTP/HdrToSMTP,
T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
A=procmail -Y -a $u -d $h
OpenSSL utility toolkit, something like this may work:</p>
<pre>
-poll MYSERVER port 993 plugin "openssl s_client -connect %h:%p"
+poll MYSERVER port 993 plugin "openssl s_client -connect %h:%p"
protocol imap username MYUSERNAME password MYPASSWORD
</pre>
<li># cp sendmail.mc sendmail-mine.mc</li>
-<li>Edit sendmail-mine.mc and add lines:
+<li>Edit sendmail-mine.mc and add lines:
<pre>
FEATURE(nodns)
</pre>
</li>
-<li>Build a new sendmail.cf
+<li>Build a new sendmail.cf
<pre>
# m4 sendmail-mine.cf > /etc/sendmail.cf
programs further downstream from acting up.</p>
<hr/>
-<h2><a id="X4" name="X4">X4.</a><a id="generic_mangling"
+<h2><a id="X4" name="X4">X4.</a>
<a id="generic_mangling"
name="generic_mangling">My mail is being mangled in a new and
different way</a></h2>
<p>Fetchmail doesn't discard attachments; fetchmail doesn't have any idea
that attachments are there. Fetchmail treats the body of each message as
an uninterpreted byte stream and passes it through without alteration.
-If you are not receiving attachments through fetchmail, it is because
+If you are not receiving attachments through fetchmail, it is because
your mailserver is not sending them to you.</p>
<p>The fix for this is to replace your mailserver with one that works.
of these, replacing your server with a Unix machine is probably the
only effective solution.</p>
-<p>We've had sporadic reports of problems with Microsoft Exchange and
-Outlook servers. These sometimes randomly fail to ship
+<p>We've had sporadic reports of problems with Microsoft Exchange and
+Outlook servers. These sometimes randomly fail to ship
attachments to your client. This is a known bug, acknowledged by
Microsft.</p>
sees:</p>
<pre>
-
+
....blahblah)...
</pre>
biff y
</pre>
-Change this to
+Change this to
<pre>
biff n
</pre>
-to solve the problem system-wide.
+to solve the problem system-wide.
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<h2><a id="O3" name="O3">O3. Does fetchmail reread its rc file
<br clear="left"/>
<address>Eric S. Raymond <a
-href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@thyrsus.com></a></address>
+ href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@thyrsus.com></a><br />
+Matthias Andree</address>
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