The 5.9.11 release of fetchmail is now available at the usual locations,
including <URL:http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail>.
The source archive is available at:
<URL:http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-5.9.11.tar.gz>
Here are the release notes:
fetchmail-5.9.11 (Mon Apr 1 17:09:13 EST 2002), 21597 lines:
* Updated Turkish and Japanese translations.
* Added warning about auth failures on the GMX server.
* HMH's Debian 5.9.10 patches:
1. Fix minor typo in FAQ
2. Fix partial implementation of ESMTP auth, and some minor
fetchmailconf stuff
3. Add proper error reporting to bad logfile creation.
patch by Sunil Shetye <shetye(_at_)bombay(_dot_)retortsoft(_dot_)com>
4. Fix incredible aggravating bug that caused dataloss
risks if 4xx errors were returned by the MTA
5. Corrected version of the fix-timeouts-for-ssl and descriptor
leaking patches from Sylvain Benoist <sylvainb(_at_)whitepj(_dot_)com>
Also fix outdated comments in driver.c
6. Sunil Shetye's patch to stop fetchmail from trying to fetch
twice with IMAP
7. Stop stupid complaint about turning off SSL being illegal
without SSL support.
8. Byrial Jensen <byrial(_at_)image(_dot_)dk> i18n fixes
* Sunil Shetye's attribute patch.
* HMH's revised but untested SMTP authentication patch.
* Added GPL license exemption to COPYING for
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Last release before 6.0.0. Consider this a 6.0.0 release candidate.
By popular demand, diffs from the previous release have been omitted.--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,
but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe