a terminating newline get the POP3 message termination dot emitted
-- you guessed it -- right after the last character of the message,
with no terminating newline added. This will hang fetchmail or any
-other RFC-compliant server. IMAP is alleged to work OK, though.</p>
-
-<p>Older versions of Exchange are semi-usable. They randomly drop
-attachments on the floor, though. Microsoft acknowledges this
-as a known bug and apparently has no plans to fix it.</p>
+other RFC-compliant client. IMAP is alleged to work OK, though.</p>
+
+<p>Exchange 2003 SP2 has been observed to alter MIME boundary
+lines in multipart messages between one IMAP FETCH command and the next
+under some circumstances -- for instance, when the top-level
+Content-Transfer-Encoding is "binary" (which is commonplace with Perl's
+MIME::Lite module). This causes MUAs to not detect attachments, but
+render the whole message body as one lump of hardly legible to
+unintelligible text, rather than nicely presenting text part and
+attachments or images separately. The cause is that Exchange uses its
+own message store and needs to convert back to MIME message format
+on-the-fly, and apparently this is sometimes subject to such
+inconsistencies.
+</p>
<p>Fetchmail using IMAP usually supports the proprietary NTLM mode used
with Microsoft Exchange servers. "Usually" here means that it fails on some
</ul>
</blockquote>
-<p>But, the best option involves finding a server that runs better
-software.</p>
-
<h2><a id="S3" name="S3">S3. How can I use fetchmail with HP
OpenMail?</a></h2>
the mail that fetchmail fetches. It's best to avoid fetching mail from
Google until they are using standards-compliant software.</p>
+<p>If you still need to use Google's mail service, these links may help (valid as of 2011-04-13):</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=12805">Other ways to access Gmail > POP</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=12806">Other ways to access Gmail > IMAP</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47948">Using POP on multiple clients or mobile devices</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13291">Some [POP3] mail was not downloaded</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78774">I'm having problems downloading [IMAP] mail</a></li>
+</ul>
+
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<h1>How to set up well-known security and authentication
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