The 5.8.3 release of fetchmail is now available at the usual locations,
including <URL:http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail>.
Here are the release notes:
fetchmail-5.8.3 (Sat May 12 04:07:12 EDT 2001), 20502 lines:
* The `localhost' special case of `via' is gone. Use `plugin %h' for talking
to ssh instead.
* Prevent POP3 code from authenticating multiple times on success.
* Fixed IMAP password shrouding.
* GCC warning cleanups from ahaas(_at_)neosoft(_dot_)com(_dot_)
* Plug another hole that was letting zombies through.
* SA_RESTART portability fix for SunOS.
* Ignore Sender and Resent-Sender headers unless they contain @.
There are 333 people on fetchmail-friends and 582 on fetchmail-announce.
This wraps up all pending patches except Henrique's gmake independence
fixes, which are having a bad interaction with something in my Red Hat
distro. I will investigate.
NOTE TO SSH USERS: this release makes a minor but incompatible change
in .fetchmailrc semantics. In order to clean up one of the nasty
spots in the code and get rid of a `feature' that even I found hard to
understand, the special interpretation of `via localhost' is gone.
If you are using this for ssh tunnelling, you'll need to switch to
using a plugin option with %h.
By popular demand, diffs from the previous release have been omitted.--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are
perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today,
I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].
-- U.S. Representative John Dingell, 1980
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