IPv6 and IPSEC

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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
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--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ you should install OPIE.  You need version 2.32 or better.
 
 The OPIE library sources are available at ftp://ftp.inner.net/pub/opie.
 
+Building in IPv6 support and the network security patches REQUIRES that
+Craig Metz's inet6-apps kit be installed; the network security patches
+require that the kit be built with network security API support
+enabled. The kit can be gotten from ftp.ipv6.inner.net:/pub/ipv6 (via
+IPv6) or ftp.inner.net /pub/ipv6 (via IPv4).
+
 2. CONFIGURE
 
 Installing fetchmail is easy.  From within this directory, type:

diff --git a/design-notes.html b/design-notes.html
index 69641697e3382f69ac53fb4d44ec461b9cd9019e..771e5994c81fa33eba1a1ed65c4ff61395633f6c 100644 (file)
--- a/design-notes.html
+++ b/design-notes.html
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
 <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
 <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/10/12 02:44:26 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/02/16 06:46:23 $
 </table>
 <HR>
 <H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Design Notes On Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -267,6 +267,26 @@ with errors to fetchmail's invoking user in addition to any other
 recipients.  These would fit an assumption that DNS lookup errors are
 likely to be permanent problems associated with an address.<P>
 
+<H1>IPv6 and IPSEC</H1>
+
+The IPv6 support patches are really more protocol-family independence
+patches. Because of this, in most places, "ports" (numbers) have been
+replaced with "services" (strings, that may be digits). This allows us
+to run with certain protocols that use strings as "service names"
+where we in the IP world think of port numbers.  Someday we'll plumb
+strings all over and then, if inet6 is not enabled, do a
+getservbyname() down in SocketOpen. The IPv6 support patches use
+getaddrinfo(), which is a POSIX p1003.1g mandated function. So, in the
+not too distant future, we'll zap the ifdefs and just let autoconf
+check for getaddrinfo. IPv6 support comes pretty much automatically
+once you have protocol family independence.<P>
+
+Craig Metz used his inner_connect() function to handle most of the
+connect work. This is a nonstandard function not likely to ever exist
+in a system's libc, but we can just include that source file if the
+day comes when we want to support IPv6 without the inet6-apps
+library. It just makes life easier.<P>
+
 <H1>Lessons learned</H1>
 
 <H3>1. Server-side state is essential</H3>
@@ -403,7 +423,7 @@ all shaped the design in one way or another.<P>
 <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
 <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
 <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/10/12 02:44:26 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/02/16 06:46:23 $
 </table>
 
 <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>

diff --git a/fetchmail-features.html b/fetchmail-features.html
index dc13c90e9058c590bead08002ec8c0ee5ddb3f18..c96f1808497407ea347af8ef4ff85d68b9c24b4d 100644 (file)
--- a/fetchmail-features.html
+++ b/fetchmail-features.html
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
 <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
 <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/12/18 00:45:07 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/02/16 06:41:31 $
 </table>
 <HR>
 
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ are listed first. <P>
 
 <H2>Since 4.0:</H2>
 <UL>
+<LI> Support for IPv6 and IPSEC (using Craig Metz's inet6-apps library).
+
 <LI> Support for IMAP with RFC1731-conformant GSSAPI authentication.
 
 <LI> Fixed and verified support for Cyrus IMAP server, M$ Exchange,
@@ -134,7 +136,7 @@ get-mail, gwpop, pimp-1.0, pop-perl5-1.2, popc, popmail-1.6 and upop.<P>
 <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
 <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
 <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/12/18 00:45:07 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/02/16 06:41:31 $
 </table>
 
 <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>

diff --git a/indexgen.sh b/indexgen.sh
index 9cbbbfc2ac3323383b17c20595cc8b1d1e8ed6fd..9f4220c8e901ebc2fe9674c04d67fc4950a5dd14 100755 (executable)
--- a/indexgen.sh
+++ b/indexgen.sh
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ Fetchmail is a free, 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 IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN. 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