Merge Rainer Weikusat's P-Tree implementation for uid.

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@@ -11,17 +11,10 @@ change.  MA = Matthias Andree, ESR = Eric S. Raymond, RF = Rob Funk.)
 # ADVANCE WARNING OF FEATURES TO BE REMOVED OR CHANGED IN FUTURE VERSIONS
 (There are no plans to remove features from a 6.3.X release, but they may be
 removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.)
-* The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
-  are based on assumptions that are rarely met in practice, somewhat defective,
-  deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
-  They have never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4).
-  Non-DNS based alias keywords such as "aka" will remain in fetchmail.
 * The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail
   version as they are not reasonably portable across operating systems.
-* POP2 is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail version.
 * IMAP2 and IMAP4 (not IMAP4r1) are obsolete, support may be removed from a
   future fetchmail version.
-* RPOP is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail release.
 * --sslcertck will become a default setting in a future fetchmail version.
 * The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor
   is deprecated and may be removed from a future release.
@@ -36,15 +29,10 @@ removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.)
   inconsistent and confusing.
 * The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future
   fetchmail release. Explicit configuration of the protocol is recommended.
-* Kerberos IV support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
 * Kerberos 5 support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
 * The --principal option may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
 * SIGHUP wakeup support may be removed from a future fetchmail release and
   cause fetchmail to terminate - it was broken for many years.
-* Support for operating systems that are not sufficiently POSIX compliant may be
-  removed or operation on such systems may be suboptimal for future releases.
-  This means that fetchmail may only continue to work on C99 and POSIX 2001
-  based systems.
 * The maintainer may migrate fetchmail to C++ with STL or C#, and impose further
   requirements (dependencies), such as Boost or other class libraries.
 * The softbounce option default will change to "false" in the next release.
@@ -54,6 +42,29 @@ removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.)
 
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+fetchmail-6.4.0 (not yet released):
+
+NOTE THIS IS AN ALPHA RELEASE THAT HAS NOT BEEN THOROUGHLY TESTED!
+
+# MAJOR CHANGES
+* The UIDL handler code is now much faster, especially noticable with lots of
+  mail kept on a POP3 server. Where the 6.3.X code was of O(n^2) complexity,
+  we're down to O(n log n).  (Rainer Weikusat, MAD Partners Ltd./MSS GmbH).
+
+# REMOVED FEATURES
+* POP2 and RPOP were long obsolete and removed
+* Trio was removed
+* Support for systems that do not conform to C89 and POSIX 2001 was removed, this includes
+  BeOS, EMX, NeXTSTEP.
+* The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
+  have been removed. They were based on the mistaken assumption that the
+  IMAP/POP3 server was also the MX server, which is rarely the case.  They have
+  never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4) either.
+  Non-DNS based alias keywords such as "aka" remain.
+* Kerberos IV support was removed.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 not yet released:
 
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