Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:54:05PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
| I could never figure out what went wrong, because when I sent the exchange
| competence center people an smtp + pop3 dump illustrating the mangling,
| they were completely baffled about the possibility of sending email with
| telnet, so I gave up.
...
| Umm, actually it doesn't or didn't. Fetchmail had to be patched to allow
| incorrect pop3 "list" responses from a certain vendor's mail server,
| because it reported not the actual message size, but the size of the
| compressed entry in the mail database. It is also explained in the
| fetchmail FAQ.
|
| When the company where this happened, tried to get some of the support
| they were paying (very big time) for, there was no answer. So two bsd
| gurus who were affected by this debugged it a bit and even found the likely
| cause of the problem sent a patch to the fetchmail bazaar.
|
| Shortly after the patched version of fetchmail hit the net, the submitters
| of the patch were contacted by an exchange developer. After some pounding
| with rfc's, he agreed that it was a bug and gave a magic registry hack to
| fix exchange, ie. one has to add a key called "pop3 compatibility" to be
| compliant with the rfc's.
LOL! Great story. Thanks Joost.
| Since knowing about this, it has never been a doubt to me that open source
| has better support than closed source, even if that's what you're actually
| using.
"What Every Retailer Should Know" ...
(if you don't know what I am talking about search the debian-user
archives to find a hilarious MS press release)
-D
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