#
# indexgen.sh -- generate current version of fetchmail home page.
#
-goldvers="5.0.0"
-goldname="5.0.0"
+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`
+set -- `timeseries | grep -v "[%#]" | head -1`
subscribers=$4
+make fetchmail
set -- `ls -ks fetchmail`
fetchmailsize=$1
set -- `(cd /lib; ls libc-*)`
if [ $version != $goldvers ]
then
- for file in fetchmail-$goldvers.tar.gz fetchmail-$goldvers-1.i386.rpm fetchmail-$goldvers-1.src.rpm
+ 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 >>checksums
+ md5sum $file | sed -e "s: .*/: :" >>checksums
done
fi
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 <a
-href="http://www.imap.org">IMAP</a>, and ESMTP ETRN. It can even
+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
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. It can be configured to support end-to-end encryption via
-tunneling with <a href="http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh/">ssh, the Secure Shell</a><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
Fetchmail is easy to configure. You can edit its dotfile directly, or
use the interactive GUI configurator (fetchmailconf) supplied with the
-fetchmail distribution.<P>
+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
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="design-notes.html">Fetchmail Design Notes</a>
for discussion of some of the design choices in fetchmail.<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 leading-edge resources here:
fi
cat >>index.html <<EOF
-(Note that the RPMs don't have the POP2, OTP, IPv6, Kerberos, GSSAPI,
-Compuserve RPA, or GNU gettext internationalization support compiled
-in. To get any of these you will have to build from sources.)<p>
+(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>
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@ccil.org">fetchmail-friends@ccil.org</a>.
-There is also an announcements-only list, <em>fetchmail-announce@ccil.org</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@ccil.org?subject=subscribe">
-fetchmail-friends-request@ccil.org</a> or
-<a href="mailto:fetchmail-announce-request@ccil.org?subject=subscribe">
-fetchmail-announce-request@ccil.org</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
Fetchmail was written and is maintained by <a
href="../index.html">Eric S. Raymond</a>. There are some designated
backup maintainers (<a href="mailto:funk+@osu.edu">Rob Funk</a>, <a
-href="mailto:alberty@apexxtech.com">Al Youngwerth</a>, <a
-href="mailto:imdave@mcs.net">Dave Bodenstab</a>. Other backup
+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, Debian and
-S.u.S.e. 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 seven hundred people have participated on the fetchmail beta list
-(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 tens of thousands, and possibly over a hundred thousand.<p>
-
-<H1>The fetchmail paper:</H1>
+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
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.
-The paper became quite popular and (to my continuing astonishment) may
+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,
-to its page.<P>
+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>
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,
-Rhapsody, and QNX as well. <p>
+However, it is reported to build and run correctly under BeOS,
+
AmigaOS, Rhapsody, and QNX as well. <p>
-<H1>Related resources</H1>
+<H1>Related resources:</H1>
Jochen Hayek is developing a set of
<a href="http://www.ACM.org/~Jochen_Hayek/JHimap_utils/">
header lines, or move incoming messages to named mailboxes based on
the contents of headers.<p>
-Hugo Rabson has written a script called \`hotmole' that can retrieve
-Hotmail mail via the web using Lynx. The script is available on <a
-href="http://www.jin-sei-kai.demon.co.uk/hugo/linux.html"> Hugo
-Rabson's Linux page</a>.<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>
<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>
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