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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.

Serious

   Let IMAP code use UID and UIDVALIDITY rather than relying on flags that
   everyone can alter.

Normal

   POP3 hang when polling mail with NUL char that is rejected (David Greaves)
   https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-devel/2004-October/000154.html

   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.

   The Debian bug-tracking page for fetchmail lists other bug reports.

Cosmetic

   Alan Munday suggests message change MULTIDROP without ENVELOPE:
fetchmail: warning: MULTIDROP configuration for pop.example.org requires the en
velope option to be set!
fetchmail: warning: Check ENVELOPE option if fetchmail sends all mail to postma
ster!

Feature requests/Wishlist items

   Feature request from "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@RWTH-Aachen.DE> "When
   fetchmail downloads mail and Exim+SpamAssassin detecs an incoming message as
   spam, fetchmail tries to bounce it. Unfortunately it uses an incorrect
   hostname as part of the sender address (I've an internal LAN with private
   hostnames, plus an official IP address and hostname, and fetchmail picks the
   internal name of my host.) So I'd like to have a config statement that
   allows me to explicitly set a senderaddress for bounce messages."

   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."

   Maybe refuse multidrop configuration unless "envelope" is _explicitly_
   configured (and tell the user he needs to configure the envelope option) and
   change the envelope default to nil. This would prevent a significant class
   of shoot-self-in-foot problems.

   Given the above change, perhaps treat a delivery as "temporarily failed"
   (leaving the message on the server, not putting it into .fetchids) when the
   header listed in the "envelope" option is not found. (This is so you don't
   lose mail if you configure the wrong envelope header.)

   Matthias Andree writes:

     NOTE that the current code need optimization, if I have unseen articles 3
     and 47, fetchmail will happily request LIST for articles 3...47 rather
     than just 3 and 47. In cases where the message numbers are far apart, this
     involves considerable overhead - which could be alleviated by pipelining
     the list commands, which needs either asynchronous reading while sending
     the commands, or knowing the send buffer, to avoid deadlocks.
     Unfortunately, I don't have the time to delve deeper into the code and
     look around.

     Note that such a pipelining function would be of universal use, so it
     should not be in pop3.c or something. I'd think the best approach is to
     call a "sender" function with the command and a callback, and the sender
     will call the receiver when the send buffer is full and call the callback
     function for each reply received.

     See the ESMTP PIPELINING RFC for details on the deadlock avoidance
     requirements.
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    -2003 Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
    2004- Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>