- 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-5.0.7 (Sat Aug 21 04:26:13 EDT 1999):
+(The `lines' figures total .c, .h, .l, and .y files under version control.)
+
+* Back out the InterChange workaround, it breaks operation with M$ Exchange.
+* Update for cs.po from Jiri Pavlovsky.
+* Prevent spurious hostname matches in fetchmailconf.
+* Ultrix 4.5 port patches from Simon Burge <simonb@thistledown.com.au>.
+* Add bug warning to FAQ about Lotus Domino.
+* Suppress monitor check just after being woken by signal.
+
+fetchmail-5.3.4 (Wed Mar 22 15:55:51 EST 2000), 18819 lines:
+
+* Added FAQ item on performance under load.
+* Fix Debian bug #60202 (segfaults when given command line arguments).
+ This only applied to `antispam', as it turned out.
+* Work around InterChange's bug with attachments as suggested by
+ paul666@mailandnews.com.
+* Enable checks on multiple folders.
+
+There are 294 people on fetchmail-friends and 504 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.3.3 (Mon Mar 13 16:34:29 EST 2000), 18763 lines:
+
+* Fixed reporting of listener timeouts.
+* Configure now supports SOCKS5, thanks to Alan Schmitt.
+* Fix a minor bug in preauthenticated IMAP, thanks to Urban Boquist
+ <boquist@crt.se>.
+* Try to support suffix matching in aka lists.
+
+There are 285 people on fetchmail-friends and 504 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.3.2 (Mon Mar 6 21:41:23 EST 2000), 18695 lines:
+
+* Added experimental support for RFC2177 IDLE command extension of IMAP.
+* Updated fr.po.
+* Fixed a bug in fetchmailconf's handling of envelope skip prefixes.
+* Don't nuke .fetchids when authorization failure keeps us from getting URLs.
+* Added FAQ item X6 on dropped and mangled attachments, thanks to Rob Funk.
+* Teach configure.in to link the RSA reference library if available.
+* Disable saving of Message-IDs into UIDL lists.
+
+There are 290 people on fetchmail-friends and 500 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.3.1 (Sun Mar 5 23:02:42 EST 2000), 18648 lines:
+
+* Use remotename@hostname for MAIL FROM if we have not been able to deduce
+ a Return-Path.
+* Fix the attempted fix for Joop Susan's ENOTCONN bug.
+* Added FAQ material on a Microsoft Exchange bug, on forwarding to
+ a different host than the one fetchmail runs on, and on using
+ ssh for a secure passwordless connection. Removed the FAQ entry
+ on popclient.
+* Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net> sent a fix for IPv6.
+* Fix Red Hat 6.2beta bug 9982: fetchmailconf now automatically pups up
+ an edit panel whenever a new user or site is created.
+* Fix Red Hat 6.2beta bug 9987: Deal gracefully with the possibility that
+ we might be running as a subprocess with stdin not attached to a tty,
+ and thus unable to query for a password.
+* Resolved all current Debian bugs classed `important'; #43139, #44744, #44760,
+ #44774, #43140, #50990.
+* Resolved Debian ordinary bugs #17769, #34383, #38303, #39732, #51674,
+ #53386, #53732, #58553.
+* Resolved Debian wishlist bug #26630.
+* Resolution of #59281 (still loops on Ctrl-C) involved a small change in
+ behavior; SIGPIPE now terminates the current poll cycle.
+
+There are 289 people on fetchmail-friends and 502 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.3.0 (Tue Feb 22 08:53:31 PST 2000), 18618 lines:
+
+* Horst von Brand's improvements to the specfile generator.
+* Joop Susan's improvements in error status reporting.
+* Only emit progress dots when stdout is connected to a tty.
+* Fix for GNATS bug 16468, "INET6 breaks fetchmail preconnect"
+ by Munechika SUMIKAWA <sumikawa@ebina.hitachi.co.jp>.
+* Lexical analyzer now understands that -?[0-9]*[a-zA-Z] is not a number.
+
+There are 293 people on fetchmail-friends and 498 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.2.8 (Mon Feb 14 19:16:46 EST 2000), 18571 lines:
+
+* Attempted fix for Joop Susan's ENOTCONN bug.
+* Fix for NO response during SIZE fetches for M$ Exchange IMAP server.
+* Thomas Zajic <zlatko@gmx.at> sent a change that copes with GMX X-UIDLs.
+* Fix fetchmailconf's handling of ssl attributes when SSL is not configured.
+* Handle IMAP folder names with embedded spaces.
+* cs.po update from Jiri Pavlovsky.
+* Make -d0 -v work when -a and -k are on.
+* UID handling has been broken since 5.2.5. This version should work.
+ Thanks to Bruce Hauge <bruce_hauge@agilent.com> for testing.
+
+There are 287 people on fetchmail-friends and 504 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.2.7 (Sun Feb 6 20:45:41 EST 2000), 18517 lines:
+* Updated FAQ.
+* Updated es.po.
+* Disable mail notification on server unreachable. This turned out to
+ be a very bad idea.
+
+There are 276 people on fetchmail-friends and 493 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.2.6 (Sat Feb 5 00:01:53 EST 2000), 18517 lines:
+* Close down sockets using shutdown(2) and discarding read data until we
+ get a TCP FIN. With any luck this will squash our socket leak.
+* Open the lockfile with O_SYNC, so we know the file has been written
+ before close (sigh...NFS might still betray us...).
+* Added Martijn Lievaart's sendmail hacks for multidrop to the contrib
+ directory.
+* Fix bug in processing of plugout option.
+* AIX port tweak from Dave Marquardt <marquard@austin.ibm.com>.
+* Add support for `ssh' preauth type to suppress password prompts at startup.
+* Support for RFC2449 extended POP3 responses [IN-USE] and [LOGIN-DELAY].
+* Log bounced messages via syslog (Debian bug #50184).
+* Add scrollbars on fetchmailconf help windows (Debian bug #51770).
+* Notify user by mail when pop server nonexistent (Debian bug #47143).
+* Debian buglist cleanup.
+
+There are 274 people on fetchmail-friends and 494 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.2.5 (Mon Jan 31 02:02:48 EST 2000), 18445 lines:
+* Fixed bugs in BSMTP generation reported by Jaap Lutz.
+* Make fetchmailconf better at handling backslashes in usernames
+ and passwords.
+* Jochen Hayek's patch to handle spaces in UID usernames.
+
+There are 279 people on fetchmail-friends and 497 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.2.4 (Mon Jan 17 02:37:58 EST 2000), 18445 lines:
+
+* Fix bug introduced in 5.2.2 that stopped --syslog from working.
+* Update for es.po, fr.po, cs.po.
+* Message-string macros eliminated from driver.c so gettext can see them.
+* Various useful to version reporting & configure.in fixes by Chip Salzenberg.
+* Bernhard Rosenkraenzer's fix for broken Kerberos V configuration.
+* Make --logfile work in foreground.
+
+There are 282 people on fetchmail-friends and 489 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.2.3 (Tue Jan 4 01:56:11 EST 2000), 18421 lines:
+* Ken Estes's patch to check for unreachable UIDL file due to bad NFS mount.
+* Jorge Godoy's replacement pt_BR.po and various minor translation fixes.
+* Javier Kohen's replacement for es.po.
+* Munechika SUMIKAWA's patch to make IPv6 version build when POP2 is enabled.
+* Russian translation removed; it was badly garbled.
+* Added Rick van Rein's fetchmaildistrib script to the contrib directory.
+* Gunther Leber's cleanup patches.
+* Note to translators: The bodies of the login-error and timeout-error
+ form letters have been changed in driver.c.
+
+There are 280 people on fetchmail-friends and 483 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.2.2 (Sun Dec 26 09:31:07 EST 1999), 18365 lines:
+* Arrange for fetchmail to restart itself quietly when the rc file is touched.
+* Improvements to IPv6 code from Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>.
+* Drastic simplification of UIDL code, suggested by Ken Estes.
+
+There are 280 people on fetchmail-friends and 482 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.2.1 (Sun Dec 19 23:08:53 EST 1999), 18330 lines:
+* Added FAQ item R10 on timeouts during messages.
+* Fixed indentation problem in fetchmailconf.
+* Federico Schwindt's patch to fix broken SSL configuration.
+* Fixes to use fetchmail with IPv6 enabled on glibc without inet6-apps
+ installed; thanks to Arkadiusz Mis'kiewicz.
+* Interpret IMAP PREAUTH tag correctly (from Joerg Dorchain).
+* Upgraded to version 0.21 of smbutil.c. FAQ item S2 now documents
+ how to set a domain name.
+
+There are 282 people on fetchmail-friends and 479 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.2.0 (Tue Nov 30 14:24:25 EST 1999), 18302 lines:
+* fetchmailconf now complains and exits gracefully when not run under X.
+* configure.in port patch for OpenBSD from Federico G. Schwindt.
+* configure.in port patch for Heimdal from Leif Johansson <leifj@it.su.se>
+* configure.in fix for OpenSSL configuration problems.
+* Teach fetchmail about the buggy FTGate server.
+* cs.po update from Jiri Pavlovsky.
+* Edmund Grimley's patch to uid.c to fix the `uidl keep expunge 1' case.
+* Abort startup if the configuration directory is nonexistent; this
+ probably means an NFS mount of user's home directory failed.
+* Added warnings and FAQ items about the MailMax server, which doesn't
+ download attachments.
+
+There are 278 people on fetchmail-friends and 472 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.1.4 (Sun Nov 7 17:40:21 EST 1999), 18302 lines:
+* Mike Pearce's patch to fix a compile-time error recently introduced into
+ the socket code when HAVE_INET_ATON is off.
+* Added warning to fetchmailconf autoprobe about a flaky Netscape IMAP server.
+* Disable duplicate suppression when there is only one recognized recipient.
+
+There are 276 people on fetchmail-friends and 460 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.1.3 (Sun Oct 31 12:19:52 EST 1999), 18290 lines:
+* Grant Edwards's patch to correct NTLM behavior.
+* James Brister's fix for IP-address hostnames.
+* Updated config.guess and config.sub.
+* Backed out the 5.1.0 change to quote usernames with embedded spaces.
+ It actually breaks things.
+* Added to fetchmailconf a warning about Imail IMAP servers.
+* SSL patches by Michael Warfield merged in. Distribution still contains
+ no crypto code.
+
+There are 274 people on fetchmail-friends and 456 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.1.2 (Thu Oct 7 09:46:07 EDT 1999), 17906 lines:
+* Joe Loughry <loughry@uswest.net> sent a patch to handle multihomed machines.
+* Changed mimedecode default to `off'; it seems that doing RFC2047 decoding
+ on headers throws away information that the MUA may need to see.
+* Change Received header parsing to no longer demand an embedded dot in
+ a mailhost address.
+* Incorporated Grant Edwards's ntlmlib-0.2 with fixes for byte-order problems.
+
+There are 264 people on fetchmail-friends and 451 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.1.1 (Wed Sep 29 11:52:06 EDT 1999), 17827 lines:
+* Added workaround, fetchmailconf warning, and FAQ about Novell GroupWise.
+* Consistently show dummy arguments on manual page.
+* Fix lexer to permit `antispam -1'.
+* John Cigas's delay patch to avoid a timing problem with plugins.
+* During IMAP authentication, canonicalize both name and password.
+* -A has been retired (goes with authenticate -> preauthenticate change).
+* Check for both fetchall and keep on in daemon mode; reject this.
+* Fixed a logfile bug dumping IMAP-LOGIN and IMAP-CRAM-MD5.
+* Tolerate a tunable constant number of authorization failures before
+ complaining and wedging.
+
+There are 264 people on fetchmail-friends and 447 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+fetchmail-5.1.0 (Wed Sep 22 01:27:42 EDT 1999), 17767 lines:
+* CRAM-MD5 code now doublequotes usernames with embedded spaces. This will
+ probably fail (the RFCs don't support quoting) but it's better than nothing
+ and works with at least one server.
+* Federico G. Schwindt's fix for NetBSD/OpenBSD --with-kerberos.
+* auth keyword and option changed to preauth.
+* Correct the exit value when .fetchmailrc permissions are wrong.
+* getmail/gotmail scripts by Thomas Nesges added to contrib.
+* Guenther H. Leber's fix for a potential uid.c buffer overflow.
+* Todd Sabin's option to force IMAP authentication type; enables working
+ around some broken servers.
+
+There are 266 people on fetchmail-friends and 444 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.0.8 (Tue Sep 14 06:56:50 EDT 1999), 17711 lines:
+* Todd Sabin's patch to accept spaces in CRAM-MD5 names.
+* Fix to CRAM endianness patch, by Dan Root via Lawrence Rogers.
+* Suppress duplicates by message ID in multidrop mode.
+* NTLM support for querying Microsoft Exchange servers, from Grant Edwards.
+* Lexer fix by Brian Boutel.
+
+There are 264 people on fetchmail-friends and 441 on fetchmail-announce.
+
+fetchmail-5.0.7 (Sat Aug 21 04:26:13 EDT 1999), 17571 lines:
* RPA support works again.
* Added debian_rc startup/shutdown script to contrib/.
* Yet another monitor option fix.
There are 256 people on fetchmail-friends and 433 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-5.0.6 (Mon Aug 2 14:04:23 EDT 1999):
+fetchmail-5.0.6 (Mon Aug 2 14:04:23 EDT 1999), 17528 lines:
* Czech internationalization support (thanks to Jiri Pavlovsky).
-* Russion internationalization support (but I couldn't read the contributor
+* Russian internationalization support (but I couldn't read the contributor
name in the headers!)
* Update of the French internationalization support by Guy Brand.
* Lexer fix for the `nokeep' problem by Robert de Bath (thanks
There are 263 people on fetchmail-friends and 421 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-5.0.5 (Sat Jun 26 14:41:27 EDT 1999):
+fetchmail-5.0.5 (Sat Jun 26 14:41:27 EDT 1999), 17411 lines:
* 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
There are 260 people on fetchmail-friends and 414 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-5.0.4 (Fri Jun 11 18:32:58 EDT 1999):
+fetchmail-5.0.4 (Fri Jun 11 18:32:58 EDT 1999), 17378 lines:
* 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 are 261 people on fetchmail-friends and 407 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-5.0.3 (Sun May 2 23:39:22 EDT 1999):
+fetchmail-5.0.3 (Sun May 2 23:39:22 EDT 1999), 17241 lines:
* 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):
+fetchmail-5.0.2 (Thu Apr 29 22:09:46 EDT 1999), 17239 lines:
* 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.
There are 256 people on fetchmail-friends and 377 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-5.0.1 (Sun Apr 18 14:59:56 EDT 1999):
+fetchmail-5.0.1 (Sun Apr 18 14:59:56 EDT 1999), 17142 lines:
* 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.
There are 254 people on fetchmail-friends and 370 on fetchmail-announce.
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-fetchmail-5.0.0 (Mon Apr 5 11:00:24 EDT 1999):
+fetchmail-5.0.0 (Mon Apr 5 11:00:24 EDT 1999), 17096 lines:
* Update for fetchsetup from Kent Robotti.
* Eliminate a realloc error in fetchmail -v -v progress message generation.
* Spanish-language update by Javier Kohen.
There are 254 people on fetchmail-friends and 369 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.7.9 (Tue Mar 9 13:25:01 EST 1999):
+fetchmail-4.7.9 (Tue Mar 9 13:25:01 EST 1999), 17108 lines:
* 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.
There are 263 people on fetchmail-friends and 361 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.7.8 (Mon Feb 22 10:06:04 EST 1999):
+fetchmail-4.7.8 (Mon Feb 22 10:06:04 EST 1999), 17080 lines:
* 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.
There are 261 people on fetchmail-friends and 358 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.7.7 (Tue Feb 2 18:57:04 EST 1999):
+fetchmail-4.7.7 (Tue Feb 2 18:57:04 EST 1999), 16888 lines:
* 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.
There are 257 people on fetchmail-friends and 349 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.7.6 (Sat Jan 30 19:44:24 EST 1999):
+fetchmail-4.7.6 (Sat Jan 30 19:44:24 EST 1999), 16836 lines:
* 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.
There are 262 people on fetchmail-friends and 343 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.7.5 (Sat Jan 9 17:01:13 EST 1999):
+fetchmail-4.7.5 (Sat Jan 9 17:01:13 EST 1999), 16740 lines:
* Issue proper logout after running fetchmail -c
* Fix prefix problem with internationalized version.
* Fix for Harry McGavran's VPATH bug.
There are 253 people on fetchmail-friends and 331 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.7.4 (Mon Jan 4 13:26:32 EST 1999):
+fetchmail-4.7.4 (Mon Jan 4 13:26:32 EST 1999), 16700 lines:
* Error message cleanup.
* HTML cleanup in design notes and FAQ, thanks to Byrial Jensen.
* Don't get message sizes when --check is on.
There are 249 people on fetchmail-friends and 334 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.7.3 (Thu Dec 31 11:54:01 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.7.3 (Thu Dec 31 11:54:01 EST 1998), 16643 lines:
* Added new FAQ item G11 and added material to R1.
* Do a full antispam check on the EOM response in case the local MTA does
content analysis of the message body.
There are 248 people on fetchmail-friends and 336 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.7.2 (Fri Dec 25 01:01:54 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.7.2 (Fri Dec 25 01:01:54 EST 1998), 16581 lines:
* Don't append the destination address to a postmaster name containing @.
* Added John Summerfield's getfetchmail script.
* Minor fixes in bouncemail format.
There are 246 people on fetchmail-friends and 329 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.7.1 (Fri Dec 18 03:02:22 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.7.1 (Fri Dec 18 03:02:22 EST 1998), 16571 lines:
* FEATURE FREEZE IS NOW IN EFFECT! No new features until after 5.0.0.
* Enable fetchmail to build correctly on systems without socketpair.
* gcc -Wall cleanup.
There are 246 people on fetchmail-friends and 329 on fetchmail-announce.
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-fetchmail-4.7.0 (Mon Dec 14 12:05:27 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.7.0 (Mon Dec 14 12:05:27 EST 1998), 16560 lines:
* Minor correction to make i18n subdirectory builds work better.
* Rob Funk's old-message-check optimization.
* Fix an error in the logic for detecting when all connections are wedged.
There are 246 people on fetchmail-friends and 327 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.6.9 (Tue Dec 1 14:46:19 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.6.9 (Tue Dec 1 14:46:19 EST 1998), 16549 lines:
* Better RFC822 conformance in fetchmail trace headers.
* Corrected MIME generation of bounce mail.
* Prevent core dumps on 'for' and 'by' in names (bug introduced in 4.6.8).
There are 244 people on fetchmail-friends and 315 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.6.8 (Sat Nov 28 21:07:46 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.6.8 (Sat Nov 28 21:07:46 EST 1998), 16530 lines:
* 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 <godoy@conectiva.com.br>. First
There are 247 people on fetchmail-friends and 309 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.6.7 (Sat Nov 21 13:59:47 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.6.7 (Sat Nov 21 13:59:47 EST 1998), 16369 lines:
* Gerald Britton's patches to enable Hesiod support.
* Postmaster option fix from Bill Metzenthen <billm@melbpc.org.au>.
* Socks library support from Guiseppe Guerini.
There are 247 people on fetchmail-friends and 308 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.6.6 (Sat Nov 7 17:27:04 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.6.6 (Sat Nov 7 17:27:04 EST 1998), 16252 lines:
* Fixed a core-dump bug in reply_hack with -v -v on.
* Fix fetchmailconf to be able to edit properties.
* Send calling user mail when password authentication fails in daemon mode.
There are 249 people on fetchmail-friends and 304 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.6.5 (Wed Oct 28 18:28:01 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.6.5 (Wed Oct 28 18:28:01 EST 1998), 15844 lines:
* Fixed a bug in reply_hack that could occasionally cause malloc smashes.
* Added --bsmtp option to dump mail as a BSMTP batch.
There are 247 people on fetchmail-friends and 306 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.6.4 (Tue Oct 27 09:07:58 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.6.4 (Tue Oct 27 09:07:58 EST 1998), 15764 lines:
* Code cleanup fixes by Jonathan T. Agnew <jtagnew@amherst.edu>.
* Fix to fetchmailconf to not output empty properties.
* Better instrumentation for the rewrite code -- hopefully this will
There are 245 people on fetchmail-friends and 304 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.6.3 (Tue Oct 20 12:37:25 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.6.3 (Tue Oct 20 12:37:25 EDT 1998), 15703 lines:
* Introduced `debug' verbosity, invocable by -v -v.
* Make authentication failures more visible by syslogging them.
* fetchmailconf now has access to information about which fetchmail
There are 249 people on fetchmail-friends and 294 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.6.2 (Fri Oct 16 12:49:30 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.6.2 (Fri Oct 16 12:49:30 EDT 1998), 15668 lines:
* Time out server open requests like we do reads. This protects against
buggy TCP/IP configurations that hang forever on a bad open.
* The '--limit' option can now be used with daemon mode. The user is notified
There are 252 people on fetchmail-friends and 295 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.6.1 (Wed Oct 14 18:46:58 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.6.1 (Wed Oct 14 18:46:58 EDT 1998), 15382 lines:
* Fixed a minor memory leak in the IP-address-comparison code.
* Mark Staveley's patch to suppress progress dots from non-detached daemon
fetchmails.
There are 257 people on fetchmail-friends and 296 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.6.0 (Fri Sep 18 13:17:17 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.6.0 (Fri Sep 18 13:17:17 EDT 1998), 15362 lines:
* Added Bill Adams's mailqueue.pl to the contrib directory.
* Try to enable KPOP initialization to work even if `no dns' is on.
There are 250 people on fetchmail-friends and 281 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.5.8 (Tue Sep 8 12:06:26 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.5.8 (Tue Sep 8 12:06:26 EDT 1998), 15371 lines:
* Prevent fetchmailconf from adding an additional layer of quotes on
preconnect/postconnect/smtpaddress options.
There are 252 people on fetchmail-friends and 278 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.5.7 (Thu Aug 27 17:10:46 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.5.7 (Thu Aug 27 17:10:46 EDT 1998), 15368 lines:
* Fixed SDPS support (thanks to Chris Brooks).
* One more fix for the snakebit postmaster option.
* Compute FQDN from localhost when we're using Kerberos.
There are 249 people on fetchmail-friends and 273 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.5.6 (Tue Aug 25 00:29:44 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.5.6 (Tue Aug 25 00:29:44 EDT 1998), 15347 lines:
* SDPS support, experimental version 2. Requires configure --enable-SDPS.
* Major FAQ update. Added geocities warning.
* Fixed --configdump so embedded single and double quotes are handled.
There are 253 people on fetchmail-friends and 272 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.5.5 (Mon Aug 3 16:08:14 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.5.5 (Mon Aug 3 16:08:14 EDT 1998), 15286 lines:
* Brendan Cully's FAQ entry on GSSAPI.
* Andrew Cagney's improvement to Received-line parsing.
* Kent Robotti sent an updated version of fetchsetup.
There are 256 people on fetchmail-friends and 256 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.5.4 (Sat Jul 25 10:25:14 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.5.4 (Sat Jul 25 10:25:14 EDT 1998), 15179 lines:
* Fixed processing of --antispam option.
* Antispam default value is now the list [571, 550, 501] corresponding
to the sendmail, old exim, and new exim spam-block responses.
There are 262 people on fetchmail-friends and 252 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.5.3 (Mon Jul 20 15:02:08 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.5.3 (Mon Jul 20 15:02:08 EDT 1998), 15151 lines:
* Minor fixes to the GSSAPI code. Seems to work with stock UW IMAP now.
* Fetchmail running as root now sends misaddressed multidrop mail to
`postmaster', not root. Added `postmaster' option to allow override.
There are 267 people on fetchmail-friends and 249 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.5.2 (Tue Jul 14 19:02:52 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.5.2 (Tue Jul 14 19:02:52 EDT 1998), 15013 lines:
* German-language internationalization in the RPM, thanks to Jochen Hayek.
* .fetchmailrc files are now permitted to be executable by user and group.
* Eric Daniel's guard code against very long lines.
There are 270 people on fetchmail-friends and 245 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.5.1 (Wed Jul 1 19:27:56 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.5.1 (Wed Jul 1 19:27:56 EDT 1998), 14997 lines:
* Checkalias option from Enrico Musio <enrico.musio@spaziozerouno.it>.
* Discard Unix From_ lines in headers (copes with Debian bug report #23808).
* Tell fetchmailconf not to care if the attempt to create an icon window fails.
There are 275 people on fetchmail-friends and 238 on fetchmail-announce.
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-fetchmail-4.5.0bis (Sat Jun 20 10:55:52 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.5.0bis (Sat Jun 20 10:55:52 EDT 1998), 14961 lines:
One-line fix for an embarrassing bug in the `gold' version; command-line
options were being ignored when there was no .fetchmailrc.
There are 281 people on fetchmail-friends and 229 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.5.0 (Tue Jun 16 01:56:24 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.5.0 (Tue Jun 16 01:56:24 EDT 1998), 14960 lines:
This is a "gold" version. It will be carried on the fetchmail home page
in addition to the current leading-edge one, until the next gold version.
There are 281 people on fetchmail-friends and 228 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.4.9 (Thu Jun 4 10:41:02 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.4.9 (Thu Jun 4 10:41:02 EDT 1998), 14847 lines:
* 0.93 beta version of fetchmailconf (now with autoprobing for servers!).
* Merging of command-line arguments has now been fixed (I think!).
* Make fetchmail 64-bit clean (thanks to John Franklin <john@iptimaging.com>).
There are 279 people on fetchmail-friends and 217 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.4.8 (Tue May 26 12:30:58 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.4.8 (Tue May 26 12:30:58 EDT 1998), 14859 lines:
* Added 0.90 beta version of fetchmailconf.
* Removed fetchall side-effect kluge, now that we know how to make TOP work
with qpopper 2.3+.
There are 272 people on fetchmail-friends and 214 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.4.7 (Sat May 23 08:26:58 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.4.7 (Sat May 23 08:26:58 EDT 1998), 14477 lines:
* FEATURE FREEZE IS NOW IN EFFECT! No new features until after 4.5.0.
* Better workaround for TOP bounds-checking in qpopper 2.3+.
* Several fixes for option-parsing and elsewhere by Gunther Leber.
There are 270 people on fetchmail-friends and 216 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.4.6 (Sat May 16 14:16:49 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.4.6 (Sat May 16 14:16:49 EDT 1998), 14421 lines:
* Fix a bug introduced by my 4.4.5 bug-fix release :-(
* Make the internal line buffer eight times longer to cope with idiot
DOS-world editors.
There are 270 people on fetchmail-friends and 212 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.4.5 (Wed May 13 21:37:02 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.4.5 (Wed May 13 21:37:02 EDT 1998), 14412 lines:
* Make RPA logging use error() rather than stderr.
* Autoconfiguration support for NetBSD.
* Henrik Storner's fix for a minor mimedecode bug.
There are 271 people on fetchmail-friends and 209 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.4.4 (Wed May 6 10:08:15 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.4.4 (Wed May 6 10:08:15 EDT 1998), 14390 lines:
* Francois Wautier's fix for qvirtual.
* Willem Hengeveld's fix for UID initialization.
* Strip out qvirtual prefix *before* doing name mapping or localdomain check.
There are 270 people on fetchmail-friends and 199 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.4.3 (Sun Apr 19 18:22:00 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.4.3 (Sun Apr 19 18:22:00 EDT 1998), 14385 lines:
* Back out one of the changes to the null Return-Path handling, as it caused
invalid rewrites leading to protocol sync errors under some configurations.
* Add code to disable using TOP for pop3.c when fetchall is on. Recent
There are 277 people on fetchmail-friends and 186 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.4.2 (Sun Apr 19 00:13:42 EDT 1998):
+fetchmail-4.4.2 (Sun Apr 19 00:13:42 EDT 1998), 14378 lines:
* Use TOP for POP3 retrieval to avoid marking messages seen. Duh!
* Another fix for command-line --smtphost option.
* Deal with "Return-Path: <>" more gracefully.
There are 277 people on fetchmail-friends and 185 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.4.1 (Tue Mar 24 00:01:20 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.4.1 (Tue Mar 24 00:01:20 EST 1998), 13633 lines:
* We now properly shroud IMAP passwords containing ", \, and SP.
* Checked for Y2K safety. No 2-digit dates anywhere, so we're safe.
* Added mimedecode option by Henrik Storner.
There are 279 people on fetchmail-friends and 165 on fetchmail-announce.
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-fetchmail-4.4.0 (Mon Mar 16 14:57:38 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.4.0 (Mon Mar 16 14:57:38 EST 1998), 13579 lines:
* Fix bug that prevented graceful exit from POP3 validation on wrong password.
* Dominique Unruh's patch that copes gracefully with bodiless messages.
* Fix timer-leak problem with the SIGALRM fix, pointed out by Dave Bodenstab.
There are 273 people on fetchmail-friends and 160 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.3.9 (Fri Mar 6 10:45:32 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.3.9 (Fri Mar 6 10:45:32 EST 1998), 13531 lines:
* Relax the LOGIN capability check in IMAP.
* John Stracke <francis@netscape.com> sent a workaround for SIGALRM flakiness
under glibc6 over Linux.
There are 275 people on fetchmail-friends and 153 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.3.8 (Tue Feb 24 15:47:13 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.3.8 (Tue Feb 24 15:47:13 EST 1998), 13292 lines:
* Documentation cleanup.
* -S is back to setting smtphost all the time; net-security option is now -T.
* net-security option is now per-server, with a `netsec' keyword.
There are 269 people on fetchmail-friends and 144 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.3.7 (Tue Feb 17 21:30:26 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.3.7 (Tue Feb 17 21:30:26 EST 1998), 13104 lines:
* Fixed a minor bug in the IMAP re-polling logic.
* Nicholas Pitre's extensive changes to multidrop:
- Seek for the true sender of a mail which is not necessarily in the
There are 272 people on fetchmail-friends and 136 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.3.6 (Fri Jan 23 00:25:57 EST 1998):
+fetchmail-4.3.6 (Fri Jan 23 00:25:57 EST 1998), 12773 lines:
* Improved RPM packaging with correct grouping and an icon.
* Fixed another minor bug in handling of `expunge 0'.
* Kent Robotti sent a new version of fetchsetup.
There are 269 people on fetchmail-friends and 123 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.3.5 (Mon Dec 15 06:07:08 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-4.3.5 (Mon Dec 15 06:07:08 EST 1997), 12728 lines:
* Added Kent Robotti's fetchsetup configuration script.
* Corrected buggy handling of `expunge 0'.
* RFC 1731 GSSAPI support from Brendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com>.
There are 264 people on fetchmail-friends and 106 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.3.4 (Fri Dec 5 12:39:31 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-4.3.4 (Fri Dec 5 12:39:31 EST 1997), 12537 lines:
* Yet another attempt on the Compuserve RPA moving target.
* Fix ETRN code to poll for the fetchmail host if there's no -S option.
* Allow `--quit' to be given with other options to shut down a running daemon
There are 272 people on fetchmail-friends and 96 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.3.3 (Sat Nov 22 01:51:41 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-4.3.3 (Sat Nov 22 01:51:41 EST 1997), 12491 lines:
* Robert Hardy <rhardy@webcon.net>'s patch to use IMAP EXAMINE in check mode.
* Alexander Kourakos's patch for cleaner handling of group addresses.
* Fixed expansion of MDA %-escapes (thanks Wez Furlong <wjf103@york.ac.uk>).
There are 281 people on fetchmail-friends and 83 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.3.2 (Wed Oct 22 20:30:14 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.3.2 (Wed Oct 22 20:30:14 EDT 1997), 12463 lines:
* More slow-UIDL patches from Wolfgang Wander.
* Yet another attempt to fix IMAP-K4. This one, my beta-testers say, works.
* Only re-poll on actual dispatches (not just fetches).
There are 261 people on fetchmail-friends and 64 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-4.3.1 (Mon Oct 13 17:12:40 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.3.1 (Mon Oct 13 17:12:40 EDT 1997), 12388 lines:
* Minor portation fixes for early AIX versions and NextSTEP.
* Fixed a bad interaction between --limit and the repoll feature.
* = is now optional in global options.
There are 269 people on fetchmail-friends and 40 on fetchmail-announce.
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-fetchmail-4.3.0 (Mon Oct 6 16:44:38 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.3.0 (Mon Oct 6 16:44:38 EDT 1997), 12304 lines:
* Rearranged IMAP authentication so CAPABILITY is done first,
* FAQ update, including a major new item on how to protect your password.
* Added code to have %F in an MDA string expand to the From address
* Created fetchmail-announce list.
There are 281 people on fetchmail-friends and 8 on fetchmail-announce.
-% fetchmail-friends list split
+% fetchmail list split
-fetchmail-4.2.9 (Tue Sep 30 18:21:35 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.2.9 (Tue Sep 30 18:21:35 EDT 1997), 12185 lines:
* Don't byte-stuff when writing to an MDA.
* IMAP mode now does smart re-polling, eliminating connection/authentication
overhead when messages are being delivered to the server mailbox while
There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.2.8 (Sun Sep 28 16:59:59 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.2.8 (Sun Sep 28 16:59:59 EDT 1997), 11183 lines:
* Fixed a bug in POP2 compilation introduced sometime after 4.0.8.
* Only emit length-mismatch messages in verbose mode.
* POP3 lock busy error is now treated as authorization failure (Greg Stark)
There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.2.7 (Fri Sep 26 11:21:15 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.2.7 (Fri Sep 26 11:21:15 EDT 1997), 11080 lines:
* Full OTP support with Craig Metz's libopie 2.32 or higher.
* Major upgrade of FAQ with a procedure for diagnosing mangled-mail problems.
* Emit fetchmail's Received with stuffline so stripcr/forcecr are implemented.
There are 284 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.2.6 (Wed Sep 24 17:37:13 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.2.6 (Wed Sep 24 17:37:13 EDT 1997), 11091 lines:
* Prevent bad matches on Received line due to hostnames ending "for" and "by".
* Improved bug-tracking header, now also emitted when using an MDA.
* Cope with Post Office/NT's brain-dead habit of prepending bogus LIST items
There are 283 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.2.5 (Mon Sep 22 23:38:46 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.2.5 (Mon Sep 22 23:38:46 EDT 1997), 11114 lines:
* Greg Stark's patch for better autoconfiguration on mixed libc5/libc6 systems.
* We no longer mess with CFLAGS/LDFLAGS to get Kerberos support linked.
* fetchmail now generates its own Received header for bug-tracking.
There are 284 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.2.4 (Fri Sep 19 19:48:50 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.2.4 (Fri Sep 19 19:48:50 EDT 1997), 11079 lines:
* Small compilation cleanups, thanks to Florian laRoche.
* Removed the length consistency check, it mysteriously fails under POP3.
* Added Alexander Kourakos's patch to improve address rewriting.
There are 287 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.2.3 (Thu Sep 18 16:19:10 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.2.3 (Thu Sep 18 16:19:10 EDT 1997), 11037 lines:
* Fix a bug in IMAP message-size retrieval.
* Yet another try at getting the size-consistency check right.
There are 286 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.2.2 (Wed Sep 17 22:56:05 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.2.2 (Wed Sep 17 22:56:05 EDT 1997), 11037 lines:
* Re-enable --limit under IMAP (bug introduced in 4.2.0).
* Autoconfigure root-mode PID-file directory to /etc if no /var/run.
* ETRN mode no longer tries to flush queue for "localhost".
There are 289 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.2.1 (Tue Sep 16 12:26:57 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.2.1 (Tue Sep 16 12:26:57 EDT 1997), 11057 lines:
* Type and inclusion changes to eliminate warnings on weird Unixes.
* Detect and warn about servers like M$ Exchange that get lengths wrong.
There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-4.2.0 (Sun Sep 14 16:31:58 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.2.0 (Sun Sep 14 16:31:58 EDT 1997), 11036 lines:
* Driver code changed so delimited protocols don't rely on message lengths
being correct (this means #@!%^# brain-dead Microsoft Exchange will work).
There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.1.8 (Thu Sep 11 16:20:15 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.1.8 (Thu Sep 11 16:20:15 EDT 1997), 11028 lines:
* Fix nasty single-char-adddress bug in multidrop mode.
* Fixed cosmetic bug in ETRN mode -v output!
* Added warning about broken Microsoft Exchange server to FAQ.
There are 286 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.1.7 (Tue Sep 9 16:55:04 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.1.7 (Tue Sep 9 16:55:04 EDT 1997), 10998 lines:
* Now works with Cyrus IMAP server.
* Will build OK even if local environment lacks strstr(3).
There are 283 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.1.6 (Sat Sep 6 13:11:59 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.1.6 (Sat Sep 6 13:11:59 EDT 1997), 10996 lines:
* Correct autoconfiguration machinery for Amiga (thanks to Steffen Opel).
* Append hostname to fallback address in multidrop mode correctly.
* Suppress append of smtphost name to RCPT TO address when it has a @ already.
There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.1.5 (Fri Sep 5 15:06:13 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.1.5 (Fri Sep 5 15:06:13 EDT 1997), 10993 lines:
* Prevent core dumps on messages with no destination lines.
* Decorate RCPT TO names with smtphost.
* Have AUTO mode croak on SMTP error.
There are 286 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.1.4 (Thu Sep 4 15:41:05 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.1.4 (Thu Sep 4 15:41:05 EDT 1997), 10991 lines:
* Autoconfigure correctly for systems that lack inet_aton().
* Better failure reporting on SMTP connect failures.
* Autoconfigure the MD5 support for 64-bit machines.
Due to pilot error, there was no release actually numbered 4.1.3.
There are 286 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.1.2 (Wed Sep 3 18:44:58 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.1.2 (Wed Sep 3 18:44:58 EDT 1997), 10970 lines:
* Fixed a bonehead bug in RCPT TO name generation introduced in 4.1.1.
* Added James Steven's ip-up wrapper to the contrib directory.
* Prevent buffer spamming in SockOpen by a broken DNS.
First release after my two-week vacation.
There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.1.1 (Fri Aug 15 21:02:50 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.1.1 (Fri Aug 15 21:02:50 EDT 1997), 10830 lines:
* Fix an obvious bug in some snprintf calls (non-Linux systems only)
* No more hard limit on number of destination headers
* Wolfgang Wander's support for faster new-message detection using UIDL.
There are 269 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.1.0 (Mon Aug 11 17:19:57 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.1.0 (Mon Aug 11 17:19:57 EDT 1997), 10673 lines:
* Make the RPM depend on `smtpdaemon', which the sendmail package provides.
* Clean up the Interactive UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 port.
* Enable parser to detect and complain about the most common syntax error.
* Always pass FQDNs in RCPT TO addresses (avoids minor tsuris with exim).
There are 263 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-% web page existed by this point
+% Web page existed by this point
-fetchmail-4.0.8 (Thu Aug 7 17:05:27 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.0.8 (Thu Aug 7 17:05:27 EDT 1997), 10662 lines:
* Fixed core dump bug in UID handling introduced by the 4.0.6 change.
* Retrieval code for POP3 & older IMAP versions now skips X-IMAP message
used by UW IMAP4rev1 server to store UIDs.
There are 263 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.0.7 (Tue Aug 5 22:47:11 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.0.7 (Tue Aug 5 22:47:11 EDT 1997), 10615 lines:
* Fixed a minor bug in handling of DNS errors in multidrop mode.
* Added a `postconnect' analogous to `preconnect'.
* Make `interval' count polls skipped because of interface or monitor option.
There are 258 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.0.6 (Fri Aug 1 11:14:31 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.0.6 (Fri Aug 1 11:14:31 EDT 1997), 10583 lines:
* Changed semantics of `via' and `poll <name>' to be more orthogonal.
* Substantially improved option coverage on the man page.
* Yet another try at getting the remote-build right for Harry McGavran.
WARNING: If you are running multidrop, (RE)READ FAQ ITEM F1 NOW!
There are 258 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.0.5 (Wed Jul 30 10:27:25 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.0.5 (Wed Jul 30 10:27:25 EDT 1997), 10581 lines:
* Increased %o in the Lex source to cope with Ultrix lex.
* RPMs are now built with --without-OPIE to avoid validation problems.
* Channge in computation of true name to avoid HELO (null) bug.
There are 255 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.0.4 (Mon Jul 28 23:38:20 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.0.4 (Mon Jul 28 23:38:20 EDT 1997), 10593 lines:
* Overhauled the build machinery.
* The `no envelope' option now suppresses parsing of Received lines.
* Added Al Youngwerth as a backup maintainer.
This tries to fix the various yacc- and remote-build problems.
There are 256 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.0.3 (Mon Jul 28 16:39:17 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.0.3 (Mon Jul 28 16:39:17 EDT 1997), 10589 lines:
* Replace vsprintf with vnsprintf to avoid buffer-overrun screws.
* Added via option to make ssh configuration cleaner.
* Added dropstatus option.
Private release to Craig Metz only for OPIE testing.
There are 251 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-4.0.1 (Wed Jul 16 14:32:08 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.0.1 (Wed Jul 16 14:32:08 EDT 1997), 10418 lines:
* Compilation cleanup for DEC Unix 4.0 and AIX.
* Corrected the machinery for remote builds.
* Minor improvements in failed-connection error messages.
There are 254 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-4.0.0 (Wed Jul 9 10:30:16 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-4.0.0 (Wed Jul 9 10:30:16 EDT 1997), 10395 lines:
This is a "gold" version. Bug cleanup was finished (I hope...) in 3.9.9.
And about time, too, I've been hacking on this code for a year now!
There are 251 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-3.9.9 (Wed Jun 25 11:01:51 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-3.9.9 (Wed Jun 25 11:01:51 EDT 1997), 10410 lines:
* We can now process multiple To headers a la Microsoft Exchange Server.
* Avoid sending LIST and getting an error when no messages are waiting.
* Allow `fetchmail' to do wakeup even when no .fetchmailrc.
There are 248 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-3.9.8 (Sat Jun 14 14:19:32 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-3.9.8 (Sat Jun 14 14:19:32 EDT 1997), 9659 lines:
* Fetchmail is now normally built with optimization.
* POP2 support is no longer compiled by default, but you can configure
it in with `configure --enable-POP2'.
There are 261 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-3.9.7 (Mon Jun 9 18:40:04 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-3.9.7 (Mon Jun 9 18:40:04 EDT 1997), 9625 lines:
* Complain and exit if user tries to start fetchmail with options while a
background fetchmail is running.
* Various installation headaches are gone, INSTALL edited accordingly.
There are 252 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-3.9.6 (Wed May 28 18:28:35 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-3.9.6 (Wed May 28 18:28:35 EDT 1997), 9545 lines:
* Fix the libc6 configuration stuff (thanks to Jesse Thilo).
* Support for Kerberos-v4-authenticated IMAP (thanks to Rudolph Maceyko).
* Don't choke on RFC822 group names.
There are 257 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-3.9.5 (Sun May 18 01:05:13 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-3.9.5 (Sun May 18 01:05:13 EDT 1997), 9145 lines:
* Add an error notification when an incoming message has embedded NULs.
* Throw out >From lines in headers to prevent getting hosed by upstream
sendmails with the 'E' option on.
There are 249 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-3.9.4 (Wed May 14 12:27:22 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-3.9.4 (Wed May 14 12:27:22 EDT 1997), 8992 lines:
* Fixed a compilation glitch for systems like SunOS & others without atexit(3).
* Fixed a compilation glitch in daemonize for HP-UX.
* Changes to compile correctly on systems that have on_exit() but not atexit().
There are 248 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-3.9.3 (Wed May 7 11:40:47 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-3.9.3 (Wed May 7 11:40:47 EDT 1997), 8941 lines:
* Fix for -I option from George Sipe.
* Finally got error.c to compile under AIX, thanks to Dave Vinish.
* Prevent header rewrite logic from appending mailserver name to blank To.
There are 240 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-3.9.2 (Wed Apr 23 14:07:03 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-3.9.2 (Wed Apr 23 14:07:03 EDT 1997), 8902 lines:
* Fixed a glitch in the Makefile yacc and lex productions
* Add logic for X-Fetchmail-Warning emission of \r\n to pacify qmail.
* Yet another try at getting error.c to play nice with AIX.
There are 224 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-fetchmail-3.9.1 (Thu Apr 17 11:37:14 EDT 1997):
+fetchmail-3.9.1 (Thu Apr 17 11:37:14 EDT 1997), 8923 lines:
* Hypertext FAQ added to distribution manifest.
* RPM builder production fixed.
* Minor additions and corrections to man page.
* Added `forcecr' to fix qmail problems by forcing CRLF termination.
There are 222 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
-% bad addresses dropped after the switchover to SmartList
+% Bad addresses dropped after switch to SmartList
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-fetchmail-3.9 (Wed Apr 2 13:36:22 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-3.9.0 (Wed Apr 2 13:36:22 EST 1997), 8889 lines:
features --
There are 268 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-3.8 (Fri Mar 7 17:34:02 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-3.8.0 (Fri Mar 7 17:34:02 EST 1997), 8810 lines:
features --
There are 248 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-3.7 (Fri Feb 21 17:38:40 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-3.7.0 (Fri Feb 21 17:38:40 EST 1997), 8782 lines:
features --
There are 233 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-3.6 (Mon Feb 17 00:19:55 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-3.6.0 (Mon Feb 17 00:19:55 EST 1997), 8700 lines:
features --
There are 229 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-3.5 (Sat Feb 15 15:19:36 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-3.5.0 (Sat Feb 15 15:19:36 EST 1997), 8688 lines:
features --
There are 230 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-3.4 (Wed Feb 12 19:23:06 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-3.4.0 (Wed Feb 12 19:23:06 EST 1997), 8666 lines:
features --
fetchmail-3.3.2 (Mon Feb 3 12:59:33 EST 1997):
* Minor fixes to stripcr and password-shrouding logic.
-fetchmail-3.3.1 (Sun Feb 2 02:17:07 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-3.3.1 (Sun Feb 2 02:17:07 EST 1997), 8489 lines:
* Fix incorrect stripcr processing
* Unapply a patch that broke error logging to files.
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-fetchmail-3.3 (Sat Feb 1 15:15:13 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-3.3.0 (Sat Feb 1 15:15:13 EST 1997), 8490 lines:
features --
There are 215 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-3.2 (Mon Jan 27 02:51:10 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-3.2.0 (Mon Jan 27 02:51:10 EST 1997):
features --
There are 207 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-3.1 (Fri Jan 24 12:45:18 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-3.1.0 (Fri Jan 24 12:45:18 EST 1997):
features --
There are 205 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-3.0 (Tue Jan 21 16:44:56 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-3.0.0 (Tue Jan 21 16:44:56 EST 1997), 8164 lines:
features --
There are 201 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-2.8 (Sat Jan 11 15:48:33 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-2.8.0 (Sat Jan 11 15:48:33 EST 1997), 8139 lines:
features --
There are 184 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-2.7 (Thu Jan 9 03:18:15 EST 1997):
+fetchmail-2.7.0 (Thu Jan 9 03:18:15 EST 1997), 8091 lines:
features --
There are 177 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-2.6 (Fri Dec 27 12:42:56 EST 1996):
+fetchmail-2.6.0 (Fri Dec 27 12:42:56 EST 1996), 7185 lines:
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-fetchmail-2.5 (Mon Dec 23 04:18:54 EST 1996):
+fetchmail-2.5.0 (Mon Dec 23 04:18:54 EST 1996), 7088 lines:
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-fetchmail-2.4 (Sat Dec 21 05:24:44 EST 1996):
+fetchmail-2.4.0 (Sat Dec 21 05:24:44 EST 1996), 6792 lines:
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-fetchmail-2.3 (Sat Dec 12 14:31:00 EST 1996):
+fetchmail-2.3.0 (Sat Dec 12 14:31:00 EST 1996), 6789 lines:
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-fetchmail-2.2 (Mon Dec 9 00:15:01 EST 1996):
+fetchmail-2.2.0 (Mon Dec 9 00:15:01 EST 1996), 6573 lines:
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There are 156 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-2.1 (Thu Nov 28 11:07:48 EST 1996):
+fetchmail-2.1.0 (Thu Nov 28 11:07:48 EST 1996), 6529 lines:
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-fetchmail-2.0 (Mon Nov 18 00:32:17 EST 1996):
+fetchmail-2.0.0 (Mon Nov 18 00:32:17 EST 1996), 6360 lines:
* Fix typo in setitimer call setup that caused obscure bugs under FreeBSD.
* Accept Apparently-To if there is no To header.
* Include Cameron McPherson's patch for handling multi-line SMTP responses.
* Don't try to feed listener the header From any more.
-fetchmail-1.9.9 (Mon Nov 11 10:40:14 EST 1996):
+fetchmail-1.9.9 (Mon Nov 11 10:40:14 EST 1996), 6312 lines:
* Accept Resent-From & Apparently-From a la RFC822.
* Include file fixes for Solaris 2.5 and FreeBSD 2.2.
* Improved error notification on SMTP and no-matching-local-address errors.
* Batch limit option prevents long delivery delays on smail/qmail.
* Configuration now handles -lresolv and non-Linux bind libraries correctly.
-fetchmail-1.9.8 (Wed Nov 6 16:40:34 EST 1996):
+fetchmail-1.9.8 (Wed Nov 6 16:40:34 EST 1996), 6267 lines:
* Don't append spurious NUL to the headers, qmail actually notices it.
* Fatal bug in multidrop code fixed.
* Fail cleanly, instead of core-dumping, on mail lacking an RFC822 From line.
* Don't try to keep the SMTP socket open across poll cycles.
-fetchmail-1.9.7 (Fri Nov 1 10:02:34 EST 1996):
+fetchmail-1.9.7 (Fri Nov 1 10:02:34 EST 1996), 6551 lines:
* %s is back. Seems some popular MDAs actually choke on name arguments.
* We can handle responses longer than the socket atomic read length now.
-fetchmail-1.9.6 (Thu Oct 31 00:07:23 EST 1996):
+fetchmail-1.9.6 (Thu Oct 31 00:07:23 EST 1996), 6261 lines:
* Make rewrite option handle multiple comma-separated local names correctly.
* Fix yet another fatal error in MDA argument list construction.
* Reset timeout every time input is received.
* Correct localname detection when --norewrite is on.
-fetchmail-1.9.5 (Tue Oct 29 20:07:41 EST 1996):
+fetchmail-1.9.5 (Tue Oct 29 20:07:41 EST 1996), 6237 lines:
* Added -N, --nodetach option for debugging purposes.
* Use interval timers for poll-interval sleep and nonresponse timeout.
* fetchmail -q no longer parses the configuration file.
* Configuration file grammar is slightly cleaned up and improved.
-fetchmail-1.9.4 (Mon Oct 28 20:58:48 EST 1996):
+fetchmail-1.9.4 (Mon Oct 28 20:58:48 EST 1996), 6181 lines:
* Correct status interpretation in closemailpipe() (thanks to Neil Harkins).
* Tweak SMTP forwarding to only open one listener per SMTP host in daemon mode.
-fetchmail-1.9.3 (Sun Oct 27 22:35:33 EST 1996):
+fetchmail-1.9.3 (Sun Oct 27 22:35:33 EST 1996), 6136 lines:
* Handle nested parens in RFC822 comments.
* More gcc -Wall cleanup.
* Improved installation docs.
* Don't query DNS on startup unless needed for Kerberos or multidrop mailboxes.
-fetchmail-1.9.2 (Sun Oct 27 01:10:30 EST 1996):
+fetchmail-1.9.2 (Sun Oct 27 01:10:30 EST 1996), 5333 lines:
* Fix initialization-time core dump when running as root
* Fix fatal error in MDA argument-list construction.
There are 118 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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-fetchmail-1.9 (Fri Oct 25 23:02:26 EDT 1996):
+fetchmail-1.9.0 (Fri Oct 25 23:02:26 EDT 1996), 5294 lines:
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-fetchmail-1.8 (Fri Oct 11 15:08:10 EDT 1996):
+fetchmail-1.8.0 (Fri Oct 11 15:08:10 EDT 1996), 4586 lines:
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* Fix uninitialized-variable bug that was hanging second IMAP queries.
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-fetchmail-1.7 (Tue Oct 8 11:32:44 EDT 1996):
+fetchmail-1.7.0 (Tue Oct 8 11:32:44 EDT 1996):
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should have been (but the rewrite default was set correctly).
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-fetchmail-1.6 (Sun Oct 6 20:55:09 EDT 1996):
+fetchmail-1.6.0 (Sun Oct 6 20:55:09 EDT 1996), 4052 lines:
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* Allow program to run with no .fetchmailrc file again.
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-fetchmail-1.5 (Thu Oct 3 04:35:15 EDT 1996):
+fetchmail-1.5.0 (Thu Oct 3 04:35:15 EDT 1996), 3892 lines:
* Naturally, my decision to announce 1.4 on comp.os.linux.announce
immediately caused the code to manifest its first real bug --
a core dump when the "From:" header is spelled "from:" (all lower
* The --all and --flush flag validity checks move to driver.c.
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-fetchmail-1.4 (Wed Oct 2 09:22:37 EDT 1996):
+fetchmail-1.4.0 (Wed Oct 2 09:22:37 EDT 1996), 3884 lines:
* More man page improvements.
* Lexer changes to work around bison's "feature" of silently ignoring 0-value
tokens (caused options nokeep, norewrite, nofetchall, noskip to be no-ops).
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-fetchmail-1.3 (Tue Oct 1 05:49:49 EDT 1996):
+fetchmail-1.3.0 (Tue Oct 1 05:49:49 EDT 1996):
* Significant man page improvements.
* Escapes for newlines in .fetchmailrc are now optional.
* Kill off -2 and -3 options, redundant popclient remnants.
mailbox during the run.
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-fetchmail-1.2 (Sat Sep 28 15:40:50 EDT 1996):
+fetchmail-1.2.0 (Sat Sep 28 15:40:50 EDT 1996), 3943 lines:
* The great option massacre. Remove --stdout, --limit, --local, --mda.
We get a significant code and complexity shrinkage this way (a lot of the
configuration machinery goes away too). These things are your MDA's job.
* Fix embarrassing Makefile bug.
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-fetchmail-1.1 (Sat Sep 28 09:21:10 EDT 1996):
+fetchmail-1.1.0 (Sat Sep 28 09:21:10 EDT 1996), 4388 lines:
* In POP3, don't send LAST if STAT shows count of waiting messages to be zero.
* Document APOP better, we know it works now.
* Lose the .fetchids file and give up on POP3 UIDs, they're a dead loss.
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-fetchmail-1.0 (Thu Sep 26 11:59:38 EDT 1996):
+fetchmail-1.0.0 (Thu Sep 26 11:59:38 EDT 1996), 4453 lines:
* SMTP forwarding and header-rewrite features work with POP2 now.
* Stricter RFC822 conformance, so SMTP to qmail works. Thanks to
Cameron MacPherson <unsound@oz.net> for these changes.
popclient-3.03:
* Minor bug fixes for password querying and redirection to stdout.
-popclient-3.02 (Fri Jul 19 11:37:56 EDT 1996):
+popclient-3.02 (Fri Jul 19 11:37:56 EDT 1996), 3682 lines:
* Correct buggy processing of nokeep/noflush/fetchall.
* Fix buggy -mda option processing.
* Added -N/--norewrite option.