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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-05-14 15:50:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-05-14 15:50:49 +0000 |
| commit | 327f56a75c8f1e02710b5a046b789540d9e3fd61 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e63979bf481315186d794862f4b2ce626e3e99d | |
| parent | 7eb72e524cee0ccf8956edb8629960f78333fb43 (diff) | |
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Nailed the embedded-NUL bug.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=999
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| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.man | 3 |
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@ every user entry in a multi-user poll declaration. re-code this so --limit is still operative with --fetchall on, but you can turn off the size limit with --limit 0. -* When using the IMAP protocol, fetchmail will hang if your messages have - embedded NUL characters. This is mentioned on the man page. - Release Notes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -31,6 +28,7 @@ pl 3.9.4 (): * Changes to compile correctly on systems that have on_exit() but not atexit(). * Changes to forbid duplicate server names in the rc file. * Do caseblind comparisons of host and user names everywhere. +* IMAP retrieval can now handle messages with embedded NULs There are 248 people on the fetchmail-friends list. diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index bebfc877..e274a79c 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -1070,9 +1070,6 @@ The RFC822 parser used in multidrop mode chokes on some @-addresses that are technically legal but bizarre. Strange uses of quoting and embedded comments are likely to confuse it. .PP -Retrieval using IMAP will hang if a message has embedded NUL -characters. (This will be fixed in a future release.) -.PP Use of any of the supported protocols other than APOP, KPOP, or ETRN requires that the program send unencrypted passwords over the TCP/IP connection to the mailserver. This creates a risk that name/password pairs |