On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 10:45:15AM -0400, Eric S Raymond wrote:
I'm considering shipping 6.0.0 shortly. This is intended to be
an ultra-stable release.
Here is what I have integrated since 5.8.13:
* Cygwin port fixes for socket.c.
* Matthias Andree's patches to:
(a) clean up xmalloc types,
(b) improve distclean,
(c) use sendmail -i in configure.in and dump the fallback configuration,
(d) turn fallback off by default.
* Scott Gifford's dotted-quad patch.
If you know of any outstanding bug fixes (not new features) that need
to go in before 6.0.0, speak now.
Possible problem...
I just started rolling IPv6 into production and discovered
that, even when compiled with --enable-inet6, fetchmail complains
that it can not obtain the canonical name of a host if it's IPv6 only
(I have my DNS separated into IPv4, IPv6 global, and IPv6 site local
for testing). Seems to be a problem with "gethostbyname()". I'm
still exploring that to find out why.
IAC... Building RedHat RPM's...
1) RedHat now ships with OpenSSL. Should add --with-ssl to the
configure command in the fetchmail.spec file (or where ever you feel
is appropriate).
2) RedHat now is IPv6 enabled and ready. Should add --enabled-inet6
to the configure command in the fetchmail.spec file. Of course, it would
be nice to make the IPv6-Only systems work, but that's orthogonal to
enabling it in the spec file.
BTW... I'm currently trying to test the SSL stuff with my
IPv6-Only hosts. So I have to solve the IPv6 problem to test the
other. :-/
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