The 6.2.4 release of fetchmail is now available at the usual locations,
including <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail>.
The source archive is available at:
<URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-6.2.4.tar.gz>
Here are the release notes:
fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
* Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
* IDLE is now supported using no-ops even if the server doesn't support
the IMAP IDLE extension.
* Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
* Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
* Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
* Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
* Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
This is another bug-fix point release.
There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
By popular demand, diffs from the previous release have been omitted.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
"The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to
destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create...."
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819.