* Kerberos IV support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
* SIGHUP wakeup may be removed from a future fetchmail release and cause it
to terminate.
+* Support for operating systems that are not sufficiently POSIX compliant may be
+ removed or operation on such systems may be suboptimal for future releases.
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-fetchmail 6.3.5 (not yet released):
+fetchmail 6.3.6 (not yet released):
# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
(this section floats upwards through the NEWS to be on top of the list)
so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should be fine.
* fetchmail expects Received: headers in a particular format when parsing
envelopes.
+* fetchmail does not track pending deletes over crashes
+* the command line interface is a bit narrow-minded sometimes, for instance,
+ fetchmail -s doesn't work with a running daemon
+* some of the logging output is not very helpful
+* some of the documentation is still not up to date
+
+# IMPORTANT CHANGE:
+* sslproto 'tls1' enforces STARTTLS for POP3/IMAP and terminates the connection
+ if unsuccessful. The same configuration causes connection failure with POP2.
+ Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
+
+# BUG FIXES:
+* Repair --logfile, broken in 6.3.5. BerliOS Bug #9059,
+ reported by Brian Harring.
+
+fetchmail 6.3.5 (released 2006-10-09):
# BUG FIXES:
* For protocols such as IMAP that are not delimited by "." lines, truncate the
with new polls, and SIGHUP would be ignored for root users. SIGHUP now matches
documented behavior. SIGUSR1 has always been a wakeup signal for both root
(undocumented) and non-root users. See also the deprecation warning above.
+* Track getaddrinfo() results to properly free them after timeouts and make sure
+ that getaddrinfo() isn't interrupted by a timeout (which breaks on MacOS X),
+ reported by Uli Zappe. This should fix Debian Bug#294547 and Bug#377135.
+* --logfile is now handled more carefully, errors opening the logfile are
+ now reported to the TTY where fetchmail was started from.
+* fetchmail now complains and aborts when it cannot properly daemonize itself.
+* fix compilation on systems that don't know struct addrinfo (Solaris 2.6).
+* ignore SIGPIPE signals and rely on functions to return EPIPE instead. This is
+ necessary because the former longjmp() from the signal handler is unsafe and
+ makes the whole fetchmail behavior undefined after the event.
+* Avoid crash in env.c/host_fqdn if we cannot canonicalize our own hostname.
+ Reported by Alexander Holler.
+* SSL fix by Miloslav Trmac (Red Hat): free the SSL contexts after the
+ connection, to avoid from growing SSL certpaths without bounds, avoid using
+ SSL contexts for unrelated connections, and to fix Red Hat Bug #206346.
# CHANGES:
* Rename all fetchmail-internal lock_* functions to fm_lock_*. Obsoletes
misleading the user. Suppress EAFNOSUPPORT errors from socket() call, too.
Fixes Debian Bug #361825, reported by Daniel Baur.
* In idle mode, fetchmail complains about the fetchall option.
+* When a connection fails, log not only the IP address, but also host and
+ service name and the port number. Log the latter when trying to connect in
+ verbose mode, too.
+* Keep syslog output at one line per message (this works if no errors occur).
+* Fetchmail in verbose mode now logs if it opportunistically upgrades a POP3
+ or IMAP connection to TLS security with STLS/STARTTLS.
+* fetchmail now supports foo@example.org=bar user mappings for multidrop boxes.
+* switch setjmp/longjmp to sigsetjmp/siglongjmp
+* IMAP now supports the EXTERNAL authentication method, courtesy of
+ Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095 with minor changes.
+* The sslproto keywords are now case insensitive, courtesy of
+ Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095.
+* When going to sleep, log for how long. Suggested by Claudia Ludwig.
+* When the server name cannot be canonicalized, log the gai_strerror value.
# TRANSLATION UPDATES:
-* Russian/ru (Pavel Maryanov), Vietnamese/vi (Clytie Siddall)
+* Catalan/ca (Ernest Adrogué Calveras), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki) - also
+ made gettext 0.15 ready, Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Russian/ru (Pavel
+ Maryanov), Spanish/es (Héctor García Álvarez), Vietnamese/vi (Clytie Siddall)
# CONTRIBUTED SCRIPTS:
* PopDel.py was revised by Joshua Crawford to display the From: address and
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