#
# indexgen.sh -- generate current version of fetchmail home page.
#
-version=`sed -n <Makefile.in "/VERS=/s/VERS=\([^ ]*\)/\1/p"`
+goldvers="5.8.0"
+goldname="5.8.0"
+version=`sed -n <Makefile.in "/VERSION *= */s/VERSION *= *\([^ ]*\)/\1/p"`
date=`date "+%d %b %Y"`
+set -- `timeseries | grep -v "[%#]" | head -1`
+subscribers=$4
+make fetchmail
+set -- `ls -ks fetchmail`
+fetchmailsize=$1
+set -- `(cd /lib; ls libc-*)`
+glibc=`echo $1 | sed 's/libc-\(.*\)\.so/\1/'`
+glibc="glibc-$glibc"
+
+rm -f index.html
+
+# Compute MD5 checksums for security audit
+rm -f checksums
+for file in fetchmail-$version.tar.gz fetchmail-$version-1.i386.rpm fetchmail-$version-1.src.rpm
+do
+ md5sum $file >>checksums
+done
+
+if [ $version != $goldvers ]
+then
+ for file in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/fetchmail-$goldvers.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/fetchmail-$goldvers-1.i386.rpm /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/fetchmail-$goldvers-1.src.rpm
+ do
+ md5sum $file | sed -e "s: .*/: :" >>checksums
+ done
+fi
+
cat >index.html <<EOF
<!doctype HTML public "-//W3O//DTD W3 HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<BODY>
<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to
-<a href="http://www.ccil.org/~esr/esr-freeware.html">Freeware</a>
-<td width="30%" align=center>Up to <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
+<a href="http://$WWWVIRTUAL/~esr/software.html">Software</a>
+<td width="30%" align=center>Up to <a href="http://$WWWVIRTUAL/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
<td width="30%" align=right>$date
</table>
<HR>
<table border="10">
<tr>
<td>
-<center><img src="bighand.gif"></center>
+<center><img src="bighand.png"></center>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<H1>What fetchmail does:</H1>
-Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented
+Fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented
remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over
on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports
every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3,
-RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN. <P>
+RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of <a
+href="http://www.imap.org">IMAP</a>, ETRN, and ODMR. It can even
+support IPv6 and IPSEC.<P>
Fetchmail retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it via
-SMTP, so it can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as
-elm(1) or Mail(1). It allows all your system MTA's filtering,
-forwarding, and aliasing facilities to work just as they would on
-normal mail.<P>
+SMTP, so it can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as <a
+href="http://www.mutt.org/">mutt</a>, elm(1) or BSD Mail.
+It allows all your system MTA's filtering, forwarding, and aliasing
+
facilities to work just as they would on normal mail.<P>
Fetchmail offers better security than any other Unix remote-mail
-client. It supports APOP, KPOP, OTP, Compuserve RPA, and IMAP RFC1731
-encrypted authentication methods to avoid sending passwords en
-clair.<p>
+client. It supports APOP, KPOP, OTP, Compuserve RPA, Microsoft NTLM,
+and IMAP RFC1731 encrypted authentication methods including CRAM-MD5
+to avoid sending passwords en clair. It can be configured to support
+end-to-end encryption via tunneling with <a
+href="http://www.openssh.com/">ssh, the Secure Shell</a><p>
Fetchmail can be used as a POP/IMAP-to-SMTP gateway for an entire DNS
domain, collecting mail from a single drop box on an ISP and
it is pretty hard for anyone to tell that the incoming mail link is
not a full-time "push" connection.<p>
-Fetchmail is easy to configure, fast, and lightweight. It packs all
-its features in less than 90K of core on a Pentium under Linux.<p>
+Fetchmail is easy to configure. You can edit its dotfile directly, or
+use the interactive GUI configurator (fetchmailconf) supplied with the
+fetchmail distribution. It is also directly supported in linuxconf
+versions 1.16r8 and later.<P>
+
+Fetchmail is fast and lightweight. It packs all its standard
+features (POP3, IMAP, and ETRN support) in ${fetchmailsize}K of core on a
+Pentium under Linux.<p>
-(Fetchmail is the successor of the old popclient utility, which is
-officially dead.)<P>
+Fetchmail is <a href="http://www.opensource.org">open-source</a>
+software. The openness of the sources is your strongest possible
+assurance of quality and reliability.<P>
<H1>Where to find out more about fetchmail:</H1>
See the <a href="fetchmail-features.html">Fetchmail Feature List</a> for more
about what fetchmail does.<p>
+See the on-line <a href="fetchmail-man.html">manual page</a> for
+basics.<p>
+
See the <a href="fetchmail-FAQ.html">HTML Fetchmail FAQ</A> for
troubleshooting help.<p>
-See the <a href="http:design-notes.html">Fetchmail Design Notes</a>
+See the <a href="design-notes.html">Fetchmail Design Notes</a>
for discussion of some of the design choices in fetchmail.<P>
-Finally, see the distribution <a href="NEWS">NEWS file</a> for a
-description of changes in recent versions.<p>
+See the project's <a href="todo.html">To-Do list</a> for indications
+of known problems and requested features.<P>
<H1>How to get fetchmail:</H1>
-You can get any of the following here:
+You can get any of the following leading-edge resources here:
<UL>
<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$version.tar.gz">
Gzipped source archive of fetchmail $version</a>
<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$version-1.i386.rpm">
- Intel binary RPM of fetchmail $version</a>
+ Intel binary RPM of fetchmail $version (uses $glibc)</a>
<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$version-1.src.rpm">
Source RPM of fetchmail $version</a>
</UL>
-(Note that the RPMs don't have the POP2 or Compuserve RPA support
-compiled in. To get that you will have to build from sources.)<p>
+MD5 <a href="checksums">checksums</a> are available for these files.<p>
+EOF
+
+if [ $version != $goldvers ]
+then
+ cat >>index.html <<EOF
+
+Or you can get the last \`gold' version, $goldname:
+<UL>
+<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$goldvers.tar.gz">
+ Gzipped source archive of fetchmail $goldname</a>
+<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$goldvers-1.i386.rpm">
+ Intel binary RPM of fetchmail $goldname (uses glibc)</a>
+<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$goldvers-1.alpha.rpm">
+ Alpha binary RPM of fetchmail $goldname (uses glibc)</a>
+<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$goldvers-1.src.rpm">
+ Source RPM of fetchmail $goldname</a>
+</UL>
+For differences between the leading-edge $version and gold $goldname versions,
+see the distribution <a href="NEWS">NEWS</a> file.<p>
+EOF
+fi
+
+cat >>index.html <<EOF
+(Note that the binary RPMs don't have the POP2, OTP, IPv6, Kerberos,
+GSSAPI, Compuserve RPA, Microsoft NTLM, or GNU gettext
+internationalization support compiled in. To get any of these you
+will have to build from sources.)<p>
The latest version of fetchmail is also carried in the
-<a href="http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/pop/!INDEX.html">
-Sunsite remote mail tools directory</a>.
+<a href="http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/pop/!INDEX.html">
+Metalab remote mail tools directory</a>.
-<H1>Getting help with fetchmail</H1>
+<H1>Getting help with fetchmail:</H1>
There is a fetchmail-friends list for people who want to discuss fixes
-and improvements in fetchmail and help co-develop it. It's at <a
-href="mailto:fetchmail-friends@thyrsus.com">fetchmail-friends@thyrsus.com</a>.
-There is also an announcements-only list, <em>fetchmail-announce@thyrsus.com</em>.<P>
-
-Both lists are SmartList reflectors; sign up in the usual way with a
-message containing the word "subscribe" in the subject line sent to
-<a href="mailto:fetchmail-friends-request@thyrsus.com?subject=subscribe">
-fetchmail-friends-request@thyrsus.com</a> or
-<a href="mailto:fetchmail-announce-request@thyrsus.com?subject=subscribe">
-fetchmail-announce-request@thyrsus.com</a>. (Similarly, "unsubscribe"
-in the Subject line unsubscribes you, and "help" returns general list help) <p>
+and improvements in fetchmail and help co-develop it. It's a MailMan
+list, which you can sign up for at <a
+<a href="http://lists.ccil.org/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-friends">
+fetchmail-friends@ccil.org</a>.
+There is also an announcements-only list,
+<a href="http://lists.ccil.org/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-announce">
+fetchmail-announce@lists.ccil.org</a>.<P>
Note: before submitting a question to the list, <strong>please read
the <a href="fetchmail-FAQ.html">FAQ</a></strong> (especially item <a
href="http:fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3">G3</a> on how to report bugs). We
tend to get the same three newbie questions over and over again. The
-FAQ covers them like a blanket. Actually, I'll answer the most common
-one right here: <em>If you've tried everything but can't get multidrop
-mode to work, it is almost certainly because your DNS service (or your
-provider's) is broken.</em><P>
+FAQ covers them like a blanket.<P>
Fetchmail was written and is maintained by <a
-href="../index.html">Eric S. Raymond</a>. <a
-href="mailto:funk+@osu.edu">Rob Funk</a>, <a
-href="mailto:alberty@apexxtech.com">Al Youngwerth</a> and <a
-href="mailto:imdave@mcs.net">Dave Bodenstab</a> are fetchmail's
-designated backup maintainers. Other backup maintainers may be added
-in the future, in order to ensure continued support should Eric S.
-Raymond drop permanently off the net for any reason.<P>
+href="../index.html">Eric S. Raymond</a>. There are some designated
+backup maintainers (<a href="mailto:funk+@osu.edu">Rob Funk</a>, <a
+href="http://www.dallas.net/~fox/">David DeSimone aka Fuzzy Fox</a>,
+<a href="mailto:imdave@mcs.net">Dave Bodenstab</a>). Other backup
+maintainers may be added in the future, in order to ensure continued
+support should Eric S. Raymond drop permanently off the net for any
+reason.<P>
+
+<H1>You can help improve fetchmail:</H1>
+
+I welcome your code contributions. But even if you don't write code,
+you can help fetchmail improve.<p>
+
+If you administer a site that runs a post-office server, you may be
+able help improve fetchmail by lending me a test account on your site.
+Note that I do not need a shell account for this purpose, just a
+maildrop. Nor am I interested in collecting maildrops per se --
+what I'm collecting is different <em>kinds of servers</em>.
+
+Before each release, I run a test harness that sends date-stamped
+test mail to each site on my regression-test list, then tries to
+retrieve it. Please take a look at my <a href="testservers.html">
+list of test servers</a>. If you can lend me an account on a kind
+of server that is <em>not</em> already on this list, please do.<p>
<H1>Who uses fetchmail:</H1>
-Fetchmail entered full production status with the 2.0 version in
+Fetchmail entered full production status with the 2.0.0 version in
November 1996 after about five months of evolution from the ancestral
-<IT>popclient</IT> utility. It has since come into extremely wide use in the
-Internet/Unix/Linux community. The Red Hat and Debian Linux distributions
-include it. A customized version is used at Whole Earth 'Lectronic
-Link. Several large ISPs are known to recommend it to Unix-using SLIP
-and PPP customers.<p>
-
-Over four hundred people have participated on the fetchmail beta
-list. While it's hard to count free software users, we can estimate
-based on (a) population figures at the WELL and other known fetchmail
-sites, (b) the size of the Linux-using ISP customer base, and (c) the
-volume of fetchmail-related talk on USENET. These estimates suggest
-that daily fetchmail users number well into the tens of thousands, and
-possibly over a hundred thousand.<p>
-
-<H1>The fetchmail paper:</H1>
+<IT>popclient</IT> utility. It has since come into extremely wide use
+in the Internet/Unix/Linux community. The Red Hat, Debian and
+S.u.S.e. Linux distributions and their derivatives all include it. A
+customized version is used at Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. Several
+large ISPs are known to recommend it to Unix-using SLIP and PPP
+customers.<p>
+
+Somewhere around a thousand people have participated on the fetchmail
+beta lists (at time of current release there were $subscribers on the
+friends and announce lists). While it's hard to count the users of
+open-source software, we can estimate based on (a) population figures
+at the WELL and other known fetchmail sites, (b) the size of the
+Linux-using ISP customer base, and (c) the volume of fetchmail-related
+talk on USENET. These estimates suggest that daily fetchmail users
+number well into the hundreds of thousands, and possibly over a million.<p>
+
+<H1>The sociology of fetchmail:</H1>
The fetchmail development project was a sociological experiment as well
as a technical effort. I ran it as a test of some theories about why the
Linux development model works.<P>
-I wrote a paper, <A HREF="../writings/cathedral.html">The Cathedral
-And The Bazaar</A>, about these theories and the project. It was well
-received at <A HREF="http://www.linux-kongress.de"> Linux Kongress
-'97</A> and the <A HREF="http://www.ale.org/showcase"> Atlanta Linux
-Expo</A> two weeks later. I also presented it at Tim O'Reilly's <A
-HREF="http://www.ora.com/perlconference">Perl Conference</A> August
-19th-21st 1997 and at LinuxPro in Warsaw, December 11 1997. It's
-going to be the basis for an invited presentation at Usenix '98. A lot
-of people like it (and the folks at Netscape tell me it helped them
-decide to <a
-href="http://www.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease558.html"> give
-away the source for Netscape Communicator</a>).<P>
-
-<H1>Recent releases and where fetchmail is going:</H2>
+I wrote a paper, <A
+HREF="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/">The
+Cathedral And The Bazaar</A>, about these theories and the project.
+I developed the line of analysis it suggested in two later essays.
+These papers became quite popular and (to my continuing astonishment) may
+have actually helped change the world. Chase the title link, above,
+for links to all three papers.<P>
+
+I have done some analysis on the information in the project NEWS file.
+You can view a <a href="history.html">statistical history</a> showing
+levels of participation and release frequency over time.<p>
+
+<H1>Recent releases and where fetchmail is going:</H1>
Fetchmail is now sufficiently stable and effective that I'm getting
very little pressure to fix things or add features. Development has
slowed way down, release frequency has dropped off, and we're
-basically in maintainance mode.<p>
+basically in maintainance mode. Barring any urgent bug fixes, my
+intention is to leave 5.0.0 alone for several months.<p>
Major changes or additions therefore seem unlikely until there are
significant changes in or additions to the related protocol RFCs. One
development that would stimulate a new release almost instantly is the
-development of a lightweight encrypted authentication method for IMAP
-sessions.<p>
+deployment of a standard lightweight encrypted authentication method
<H1>Where you can use fetchmail:</H1>
The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been
-extensively tested under 4.4BSD, Solaris, AIX, and NEXTSTEP. It
+extensively tested under 4.4BSD, SunOS, Solaris, AIX, and NEXTSTEP. It
should be readily portable to other Unix variants (it requires only
-POSIX plus BSD sockets, and uses GNU autoconf).
+POSIX plus BSD sockets, and uses GNU autoconf).<P>
Fetchmail is supported only for Unix by its official maintainers.
-However, it is reported to build and run correctly under AmigaOS and
-QNX as well. A <a href="http://studentweb.tulane.edu/%7Ejmcbray/os2">beta
-OS/2 port</a> is available from Jason F. McBrayer.<p>
+However, it is reported to build and run correctly under BeOS,
+AmigaOS, Rhapsody, and QNX as well. <p>
+
+<H1>Related resources:</H1>
+
+Jochen Hayek is developing a set of
+<a href="http://www.ACM.org/~Jochen_Hayek/JHimap_utils/">
+IMAP tools in Python</a> that read your .fetchmailrc file and are
+designed to work with fetchmail. Jochen's tools can report selected
+header lines, or move incoming messages to named mailboxes based on
+the contents of headers.<p>
+
+Scott Bronson has written a fetchmail plugin (actually, a specialist
+MDA) called <a
+href="http://www.trestle.com/linux/trestlemail/">trestlemail</a> that
+helps redirect multidrop mail.<p>
+
+Donncha O Caoihm has written a Perl script called
+<a href="http://cork.linux.ie/projects/install-sendmail/">install-sendmail</a>
+that assists you in installing sendmail and fetchmail together/<p>
+
+Peter Hawkins has written a script called <a
+href="http://www.hawkins.emu.id.au/gotmail/">gotmail</a>
+that can retrieve Hotmail. <P>
<H1>Fetchmail's funniest fan letter:</H1>
If you use fetchmail and like it, here's a nifty fetchmail button you
can put on your web page:<P>
-<center><img src="fetchmail.
gif"></center><P>
+<center><img src="fetchmail.
png"></center><P>
-Thanks to Steve Matuszek for the graphic design. The hand in the
-button (and the larger top-of-page graphic) was actually derived from
-a color scan of the fetchmail author's hand. <P>
+Thanks to <a href="http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~smatus1/">Steve
+Matuszek</a> for the graphic design. The hand in the button (and the
+larger top-of-page graphic) was actually derived from a color scan of
+the fetchmail author's hand. <P>
<H1>Fetchmail mirror sites:</H1>
-There is a FTP mirror of the fetchmail FTP directory (not this WWW
-home site, just the current sources and RPM) in Japan at
-<a href="ftp://ftp.win.or.jp/pub/network/mail/fetchmail">
-ftp://ftp.win.or.jp/pub/network/mail/fetchmail</a>.<P>
+There is a FTP mirror of the current sources and RPMs in Japan at
+<a href="ftp://ftp.win.ne.jp/pub/network/mail/fetchmail">
+ftp://ftp.win.ne.jp/pub/network/mail/fetchmail</a>.<P>
+
+<H1>Reviews and Awards</H1>
+
+Fetchmail was DaveCentral's Best Of Linux winner for
+<a href="http://linux.davecentral.com/bol_19990630.html">June 30 1999</a>.
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