Off Topic : internet connection, ISP

Phil Pennock phil.pennock at globnix.org
Sun Sep 17 19:32:46 BST 2006


On 2006-09-15 at 11:47 +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> Totally unique.  But somebody did add a Demon specific option to 
> fetchmail as I recall...

--enable-sdps to turn on using *ENV for getting envelope information.

Which is accompanied by a patronising bit of the docs about how Demon
obviously didn't know that Fetchmail could parse Received: headers when
they added this *ENV feature.

What's really sick is that it searches for the case-sensitive string
"demon" in the POP3 connection banner to turn this on.  But the POP3
RFCs don't allow for local extensions in CAPA; Demon NL ignore this
and advertise it anyway.

-Phil, Demon _NL_ postmaster until tomorrow, last working day.


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