The 5.6.5 release of fetchmail is now available at the usual locations,
including <URL:http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail> and
<URL:ftp://ftp.ccil.org/pub/esr/fetchmail>.
Here are the release notes:
fetchmail-5.6.5 (Mon Feb 12 04:33:39 EST 2001), 20062 lines:
* CRAM-MD5 authentication of IMAP and POP3 is working. Tested against
IMAP4rev1 2000.287 and v2000.70 POP3 gateway at neo.netnea.com.
* Full support for POP3 AUTH (RFC1734) with KERBEROS_IV, GSSAPI, OTP.
This code has been completely refactored. In the process, it is
possible I have broken GSSAPI, KERBEROS, and OPIE; this needs to be tested.
The old IMAP-LOGIN, IMAP-GSS, and IMAP-K4 protocols are gone; fetchmail
now uses these automatically when it detects the right capabilities.
To prevent having fetchmail look for a password, specify a "preauth"
option other than "password".
* Noted that Debian bugs #78963, #63064, #81312, #78796, #78363, #78149,
#68627, #67559, #63308, #63088, #71428 are fixed.
* Resolved Debian bug #65505: fetchmail now returns a nonzero exit status
when interrupted before a successful fetch.
* configure --ssl works correctly again.
There are 273 people on fetchmail-friends and 564 on fetchmail-announce.
Yes, another lightning release. I won't repeat this anytime soon, promise --
if for no other reason that I'm flying to California on business tomoerrow,
With this release, I wanted to
(a) Get the configure --ssl fix out there,
(b) Get a version deployed that speaks CRAM-MD5 and plays nice with IMAP 2000,
(c) Get feedback ASAP on whether I broke Kerberos and GSSAPI while
refactoring the authentication code.
One more thing. I've started collecting weird mailservers so I can
regression- test fetchmail against the largest possible bestiary
before each release. If you are a mailserver administrator, please
take a look at the list of test servers now linked to the fetchmail
project page. If yours does *not* match one of the types listed,
please think about offering me a test account. Note that I don't need
shell access, just the privileges to send mail where the server can see
it and to fetch it through the server.
I've written a script that ships mail to each site on the list of servers
and then uses fetchmail to colect all of it, tracking any failures.
Point me at your your really bizarre, broken mail servers -- the POP2s
and Microsoft Exchanges of the world will make the best robustness test.
By popular demand, diffs from the previous release have been omitted.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the
pursuit of justice is no virtue."
-- Barry Goldwater (actually written by Karl Hess)
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