Note that RPA is broken.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2523

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ fetchmail-5.0.6 ():
 * Interface option fix from Bill Currie.
 * 554 added to default antispam vaklues (for Postfix).
 
+Warning: CompuServe changed their POP3 system on 31 July 1999.  In doing
+so, they broke fetchmail's RPA support.  Nobody has sent me either code that
+works with the new system or a spec for it yet.
+
 There are 267 people on fetchmail-friends and 420 on fetchmail-announce.
 
 fetchmail-5.0.5 (Sat Jun 26 14:41:27 EDT 1999):

diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index cb26738ae712cb4819b5950d2f6b8411b85ecbbd..8624b50296fdaf840194731f49a8d3e4049acb0c 100644 (file)
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -180,6 +180,8 @@ Use POP3 with MD5 authentication.
 Use POP3 with RPOP authentication.
 .IP KPOP
 Use POP3 with Kerberos V4 authentication on port 1109.
+.IP RPA
+Tries CompuServe's Remote Password Authentication.
 .IP SDPS
 Use POP3 with Demon Internet's SDPS extensions.
 .IP IMAP
@@ -646,10 +648,8 @@ password as a pass phrase to generate the required response. This
 avoids sending secrets over the net unencrypted.
 .PP
 Compuserve's RPA authentication (similar to APOP) is supported.  If
-you are using POP3, and the RPA code has been compiled into your
-binary, and you query a server in the Compuserve csi.com domain,
-\fIfetchmail\fR will try to perform an RPA pass-phrase authentication
-instead of sending over the password en clair.
+you specify it, \fIfetchmail\fR will try to perform an RPA pass-phrase
+authentication instead of sending over the password en clair.
 .PP
 If you are using IPsec, the -T (--netsec) option can be used to pass
 an IP security request to be used when outgoing IP connections are
@@ -1823,6 +1823,9 @@ MDA.  For maximum safety, however, don't use an mda command containing
 Fetchmail's method of sending bouncemail requires that port 25 of localhost
 be available for sending mail via SMTP.
 .PP
+Due to an incompatible change in CompuServe's RPA on July 31 1999, 
+the RPA support is currently broken.
+.PP
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