1 Summary of responses on `Nuke the options?':
5 Felix Morley Finch <felix@crowfix.com>
6 Nathan Myers <ncm@cantrip.org>
7 Irving Wolfe <Irving_Wolfe@wolfe.net>
8 Craig Metz <cmetz@inner.net>
9 Alexander Kourakos <awk@bnt.com>
10 John Swinbank <john@swinbank.u-net.com>
11 Alexandros Manoussakis <alx@beryl.kapatel.gr>
15 Guenther Leber <gleber@gams.at>
16 Dave Bodenstab <imdave@mcs.net>
17 Erik Soosalu <esoosalu@geocities.com>
18 Jonathan Marten <jonathan.marten@uk.Sun.COM>
22 Chris Hanson <cph@martigny.ai.mit.edu> thinks --smtphost can be useful,
23 but says the change won't affect him.
25 Matt Simmons <simmonmt@acm.org> didn't express a general opinion but wants
28 Steffen Opel <opel@rumpelkammer.uni-mannheim.de> makes a good argument
29 that --limit should be settable from the command line as a way to throttle
30 fetches according to day-night rates.
33 felix@crowfix.com: "Using --fetchmailrc, someone could
34 write a Perl wrapper which would dummy up a temporary control file
35 using the soon-to-be-banned options, if someone really wanted such a
37 ncm@cantrip.org doesn't want fetchmailrc to require a control file.
38 gleber@gams.at: "I like the flexibility I get from [command-line
39 options] and use it very often."
40 awk@bnt.com: keep -u, -p, nuke the others.
41 alx@beryl.kapatel.gr: keep -u, -p, -t, nuke the others.
42 esoosalu@geocities.com: "I would have an objection to removing
43 command line options: It makes it a lot harder to debug the inital setup."
44 jonathan.marten@uk.Sun.COM: particularly (and not unreasonably)
47 Alexandros Manoussakis <alx@beryl.kapatel.gr> offered the following summary:
49 It seems like many of us want to be able to use
50 fetchmail without the need of a .fetchmailrc file.
51 Regarding your list of commands to remove from
52 the command line, taking into account the feedback
53 regarding the matter we have (* denotes wanted options):
55 -I, --interface interface required specification
56 -M, --monitor monitor interface for activity
57 * -p, --protocol specify pop2, pop3, imap, apop, rpop, kpop, etrn
58 -U, --uidl force the use of UIDLs (pop3 only)
59 -P, --port TCP/IP service port to connect to
60 -A, --auth authentication type (password or kerberos)
61 -E, --envelope envelope address header
62 -Q, --qvirtual prefix to remove from local user id
63 * -u, --username specify users's login on server
64 -n, --norewrite don't rewrite header addresses
65 * -l, --limit don't fetch messages over given size
66 * -K, --nokeep delete new messages after retrieval
67 * -S, --smtphost set SMTP forwarding host
68 -D, --smtpaddress set SMTP delivery domain to use
69 -Z, --antispam, set antispam response value
70 -b, --batchlimit set batch limit for SMTP connections
71 -B, --fetchlimit set fetch limit for server connections
72 -e, --expunge set max deletions between expunges
73 * -r, --folder specify remote folder name
74 * -t, --timeout server nonresponse timeout
76 Let's see how it goes and you can remove at least the options
77 no-one complains about!