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Fetchmail Bugs and To-Do Items
I try to respond to urgent bug reports in a timely way. But fetchmail
is now pretty mature and I have many other projects, so I don't
personally chase obscure or marginal problems. Help with any of these
will be cheerfully accepted.
Using LMTP alias with a local name that is not a full name fails
horribly (the LMTP port never gets stripped off the name).
The UIDL code seems rather broken. It's a nasty swamp. Somebody who
actually uses it should fix it -- every time I try I seem to make
things worse....
POP3 can't presently distinguish a wedged or down server from an
authentication failure. Possible fix: after issuing a PASS command.
wait 300 (xx) seconds for a "-ERR" or a "+OK" . If nothing comes back,
retry at the next poll event and generate no errors. If we get an -ERR
then log an authentication failure.
SMTP authentication a la RFC 2554 ought to be supported. The Exim
reference has a whole chapter on this topic.
It has been reported that multidrop name matching fails when the name
to be matched contains a Latin-1 umlaut. Dollars to doughnuts this is
some kind of character sign-extension problem. Trouble is, it's very
likely in the BIND libraries. Someone should go in with a debugger and
check this.
In the SSL support, add authentication of Certifying Authority (Is
this a Certifying Authority we recognize?).
Laszlo Vecsey writes: "I believe qmail uses a technique of writing
temporary files to nfs, and then moving them into place to ensure that
they're written. Actually a hardlink is made to the temporary file and
the destination name in a new directory, then the first one is
unlinked.. maybe a combination of this will help with the fetchmail
lock file."
Move everything to using service strings rather that port numbers, so
we can get rid of ENABLE_INET6 everywhere but in SockOpen (this will
get rid of the kluge in rcfile_y.y).
The Debian bug-tracking page for fetchmail lists other bug reports.
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Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>