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<td>Fetchmail</td>
-<td align="right"><!-- update date -->2010-10-16</td>
+<td align="right"><!-- update date -->2012-12-23</td>
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<h1>Fetchmail</h1>
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- <h1>NEWS: FETCHMAIL 6.3.18 RELEASE</h1>
- <p style="background-color:#ffc0c0;color:#000000;">On 2010-10-16, <a
- href="fetchmail-EN-2010-03.txt">an erratum notice was issued</a>
- to document important fixes made in the 6.3.18 release listed
- below. Distributors are advised to upgrade their packages to
- 6.3.18.</p>
- <p>On 2010-10-09, <a
- href="http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1824">fetchmail-6.3.18
+ <h1>NEWS: FETCHMAIL 6.3.24 RELEASE</h1>
+ <p>On 2012-12-23, <a
+ href="http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1824&release_id=19227">fetchmail-6.3.24
has been released (this is the download link),</a> fixing a
- regression of the rcfile parser from 6.3.0, a security bug in debug
- output that can cause memory exhaustion and abort, and improves SSL
- usability. It is a recommended update for all users and
- distributors. <a
- href="http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?group_id=1824&release_id=17957">Click
- here to see the change details.</a>
+ minor regression and a memory leak.
+ <br>It is a recommended update for all users and distributors. <a
+ href="http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?group_id=1824&release_id=19227">Click
+ here to see the change details.</a> Note that 6.3.22 fixed
+ security bugs, and is the oldest version that should be used.
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- <h1>UTF7 in mailbox names (developer document)</h1>
- <p>There is a <a href="Mailbox-Names-UTF7.html">new document about
- mailbox name encoding in IMAP,</a>
- an invited contribution by Mark Crispin. It applies to all IMAP
- clients and servers and is not limited to fetchmail, and arose after
- a discussion on the getmail mailing list. Note that as of
- 2010-05-25, neither fetchmail nor getmail currently supports this
- directly; for the nonce, you need to manually encode the mailbox
- name in UTF-7 for both applications.</p>
-
<h1>SSL issues after upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.0?</h1>
<p>If your fetchmail upgrade entails an upgrade of the OpenSSL
library to 1.0.0, remember to re-run <kbd>c_rehash