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[fetchmail] The 6.2.5 release of fetchmail is available

2003-10-15 15:45:41
The 6.2.5 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-6.2.5.tar.gz>

Here are the release notes:

fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:

* Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
* Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
  closes Debian bug #207919.
* Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
* Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
* OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl(_at_)acm(_dot_)org(_dot_)
* Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
  flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
* Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of host/port
  option.
* Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
* Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
* Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.

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This release is intended to clear the decks of other pending business so
we can think seriously about the problems connected with the UIDL code.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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