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# indexgen.sh -- generate current version of fetchmail home page.
#
-goldvers="5.0.0"
-goldname="5.0.0"
+goldvers="5.1.0"
+goldname="5.1.0"
version=`sed -n <Makefile.in "/VERSION *= */s/VERSION *= *\([^ ]*\)/\1/p"`
date=`date "+%d %b %Y"`
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 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>
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
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 on-line <a href="fetchmail-man.html">manual page</a> for
+basics. (Sorry about the flat presentation, but
+the man2html shipped with RH6.0 chokes and dies on the fetchmail man page.<p>
See the <a href="fetchmail-FAQ.html">HTML Fetchmail FAQ</A> for
troubleshooting help.<p>
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>
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="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>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>
+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>
Over seven hundred people have participated on the fetchmail beta list
(at time of current release there were $subscribers on the friends and
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>
+<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 analysus 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>
projects / ~andy / fetchmail / blobdiff