- 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-5.1.1 ():
+(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 266 people on fetchmail-friends and 444 on fetchmail-announce.
+There are 264 people on fetchmail-friends and 447 on fetchmail-announce.
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-fetchmail-5.1.0 (Wed Sep 22 01:27:42 EDT 1999):
+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.
There are 266 people on fetchmail-friends and 444 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-5.0.8 (Tue Sep 14 06:56:50 EDT 1999):
+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.
There are 264 people on fetchmail-friends and 441 on fetchmail-announce.
-fetchmail-5.0.7 (Sat Aug 21 04:26:13 EDT 1999):
+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:
features --
There are 169 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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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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There are 165 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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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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There are 166 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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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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There are 168 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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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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% FAQ file started
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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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There are 100 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
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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.
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