+ To do:
+
+* Warn user that fetchmailconf autoprobe may take a while? (It can hang for
+ 10 or 12 minutes if it hits a firewall that drops SYN packets sent to denied
+ ports.)
+
+* --all option that forces poll of skipped entries?
+
Release Notes:
-fetchmail-4.7.4 ():
+fetchmail-5.0.6 ():
+* Czech internationalization support (thanks to Jiri Pavlovsky).
+* Russion internationalization support (but I couldn't read the contributor
+ name in the headers!)
+* Update of the French internationalization support by Guy Brand.
+* Fix for the `nokeep' problem by Robert de Bath.
+* Interface option fix from Bill Currie.
+
+There are 267 people on fetchmail-friends and 420 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.0.5 (Sat Jun 26 14:41:27 EDT 1999):
+* Merged in official OpenBSD port patches.
+* Added Spanish and German descriptions to spec (thanks to Horst von Brand).
+* Moved MIME decoding earlier to avoid messing with header length after
+ offsets have been calculated.
+* Make the .fetchmail_pid lockfile with O_EXCL. Duhh...
+* New FAQ item R8 on startup failures under Red Hat 6.0 and Debian.
+* IMAP now skips the authorization step on a PREAUTH response.
+* Fix bug in defaulting of IMAP expunge period with non-LOGIN auth modes.
+
+There are 260 people on fetchmail-friends and 414 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.0.4 (Fri Jun 11 18:32:58 EDT 1999):
+* Fixed compilation error on systems without vnsprintf.
+* No more GIFs! RPM is now patent-encumbrance-free.
+* Fix yet another annoying qmail \n bug (thanks to Paul Gilmore).
+* There is now a documented return code 13 for termination on fetchlimit.
+* Added qpopper 2.53 warning to the FAQ and fetchmailconf.
+* Fix fetchmailconf to handle window-manager destroy notifications.
+* Todd <tastas@home.com> Sabin's RFC2195 support for AUTH=CRAM-MD5 under IMAP.
+* New FAQ material on single-drop use with Daemon, thanks to Phil Hunt.
+* Fix memory leak triggered by UIDL usage, and a .fetchids-trashing bug.
+
+There are 261 people on fetchmail-friends and 407 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.0.3 (Sun May 2 23:39:22 EDT 1999):
+* Added FAQ item about things to check if --monitor fails with pppd.
+* Fixed Matthias Andree's SMTP error bug.
+
+There are 257 people on fetchmail-friends and 380 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.0.2 (Thu Apr 29 22:09:46 EDT 1999):
+* The IMAP driver now sets SEEN at deletion time, in case the server
+ ships DSNs when that bit is set (HP OpenMail does this).
+* Delay between POP3 subsessions to allow the server time to release locks.
+* Improved environment-query logic to handle mutiple names per UID.
+ (This also fixes the no-pidfile bug introduced in 5.0.1.)
+* FAQ now includes the location of SSL patches.
+
+There are 256 people on fetchmail-friends and 377 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.0.1 (Sun Apr 18 14:59:56 EDT 1999):
+* Try to discover user/home via getpwuid(getuid()) before using LOGNAME/HOME.
+* Mike Pearce's fix for buggy DEFAULT handling in .netrc.
+* Keep validation errors from generating message lines that qmail will reject.
+* Can now use expunge option to chop POP3 retrievals into subsessions.
+* Fix broken site-deletion code in fetchmailconf.
+
+There are 254 people on fetchmail-friends and 370 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+fetchmail-5.0.0 (Mon Apr 5 11:00:24 EDT 1999):
+* Update for fetchsetup from Kent Robotti.
+* Eliminate a realloc error in fetchmail -v -v progress message generation.
+* Spanish-language update by Javier Kohen.
+* French-language update by Guy Brand.
+* Danish summary and description for specgen.sh.
+* Henrik Storner's fix for the PGP/mimedecode problem.
+* Fix netrc search code to be able to search >1 host entry per file.
+* Added heads-up about SpryNet in the FAQ and a test in the autoprobe code.
+* Removed the Hotmole script. Instead, the web page and FAQ now refer to it.
+
+There are 254 people on fetchmail-friends and 369 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-4.7.9 (Tue Mar 9 13:25:01 EST 1999):
+* Patch by Dan Root to solve an endianness problem in IMAP-K4.
+* Fix lexical-analyzer bug that rejected `set nobouncemail',
+* Prevent send_bouncemail from stepping on SMTP antispam response.
+* Added French internationalization (LC_ALL=fr) from Guy Brand.
+* Added Hugo Rabson's script for fetching from Hotmail.
+* Test for .fetchmailrc ownership using geteuid() when possible.
+* Prevent parsing of delimited protocols from tripping up on a
+ MIME-armored line consisting of "=2E\r\n".
+
+There are 263 people on fetchmail-friends and 361 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-4.7.8 (Mon Feb 22 10:06:04 EST 1999):
+* FreeBSD support for interface and monitor options by Andy Doran <ad@psn.ie>.
+* Fixed server-deletion bug in fetchmailconf. Also, handle `port' properly.
+* Timestamps now generated into logfiles at start of poll cycle.
+* New `nobounce' debugging option (specifically exempted from feature freeze)
+ allows SMTP error bouncemail to be redirected from sender to local
+ postmaster.
+* Suppress dancing progress dots when syslog is on.
+* es.po update by Javier Kohen.
+* Added FAQ material on what to do for a "do not relay" sendmail response.
+* Can now build under Lynx 3.0.0.
+
+There are 261 people on fetchmail-friends and 358 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-4.7.7 (Tue Feb 2 18:57:04 EST 1999):
+* Fixed off-by-one error in batchlimit logic (thanks to Brian Warner).
+* Added MD5 checksums to web page.
+* Get kernel type (and derive /proc/net/dev format) at startup.
+* Fixes for fetchmailconf bugs reported by Gunther Leber.
+* Return of the dancing progress dots!
+
+There are 257 people on fetchmail-friends and 349 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-4.7.6 (Sat Jan 30 19:44:24 EST 1999):
+* Henrik Storner's fix for mimedecode
+* ' now works as a string quote in. fetchmailrc syntax, just like ".
+* All bounce messages now use FQDN return paths.
+* Check for background mode before generating oversized-message mail. Duh!
+* Paul Murphy's improvements for SDPS.
+* Message deletion on miscellaneous 5xx SMTP errors is suppressed unless a
+ bounce can be sent.
+
+There are 262 people on fetchmail-friends and 343 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-4.7.5 (Sat Jan 9 17:01:13 EST 1999):
+* Issue proper logout after running fetchmail -c
+* Fix prefix problem with internationalized version.
+* Fix for Harry McGavran's VPATH bug.
+* Progress messages now go to stdout. Errors still go to stderr
+* Fetchmailconf can now launch fetchmail with a point-and-click interface.
+* Many small cleanups suggested by Byrial Jensen.
+* Polish-language (LC_ALL=pl) support. Turkish text in spec file.
+
+There are 253 people on fetchmail-friends and 331 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-4.7.4 (Mon Jan 4 13:26:32 EST 1999):
* Error message cleanup.
* HTML cleanup in design notes and FAQ, thanks to Byrial Jensen.
* Don't get message sizes when --check is on.
* Gunther Leber's cleanup for the plugin/plugout code.
* Hajimu UMEMOTO's code for localtime in timestamps.
* Michael Warfield's IPv6 fixes.
-* Added Argentine Spanish as supported language (LC_ALL=pt_BR) from a
- po file by Javier Cohen <jkohen@tough.com>.
+* Added Argentine Spanish as supported language (LC_ALL=es_AR) from a
+ po file by Javier Kohen <jkohen@tough.com>.
* Accept 'passwd' as a synonym for 'password' in .netrc files.
* In fetchmailconf, Save or Quit in a frame first performs that action
on all dependent frames.
* Source distribution now includes Debian package data under debian/
-There are 249 people on fetchmail-friends and 335 on fetchmail-announce.
+There are 249 people on fetchmail-friends and 334 on fetchmail-announce.
fetchmail-4.7.3 (Thu Dec 31 11:54:01 EST 1998):
* Added new FAQ item G11 and added material to R1.
fetchmail-4.6.8 (Sat Nov 28 21:07:46 EST 1998):
* Added bounce-mail capability on SMTP/ESMTP error conditions.
* Internationalization support via GNU gettext from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
- <acme@conectiva.com.br> and Jorge Godoy <jorge@bestway.com.br>. First
+ <acme@conectiva.com.br> and Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com.br>. First
supported language is Brazilo-Portuegese (LC_ALL=pt_BR).
* Fixed Debian Bug#29913: -M on the command line causes SEGV in daemon mode.
* Emit an informational message when fetchlimit is reached.
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