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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1998-07-01 23:29:40 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1998-07-01 23:29:40 +0000
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Version bump.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=1960
-rw-r--r--NEWS4
-rw-r--r--design-notes.html16
-rwxr-xr-xindexgen.sh46
3 files changed, 34 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6052f24f..ffc364bd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
Release Notes:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-fetchmail-4.5.1 ():
+fetchmail-4.5.1 (Wed Jul 1 19:27:56 EDT 1998):
* Checkalias option from Enrico Musio <enrico.musio@spaziozerouno.it>.
* Discard Unix From_ lines in headers (copes with Debian bug report #23808.
* Tell fetchmailconf not to care if the attempt to create an icon window fails.
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ fetchmail-4.5.1 ():
`@compuserve.com' as CompuServe requires. Thus CompuServe users may now
choose ordinary authentication at runtime.
+There are 275 people on fetchmail-friends and 238 on fetchmail-announce.
+
fetchmail-4.5.0bis (Sat Jun 20 10:55:52 EDT 1998):
One-line fix for an embarrassing bug in the `gold' version; command-line
diff --git a/design-notes.html b/design-notes.html
index ae45d54d..c856511c 100644
--- a/design-notes.html
+++ b/design-notes.html
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/06/29 21:38:03 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/07/01 23:29:16 $
</table>
<HR>
<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Design Notes On Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ program isn't perfect, but it's trying.<P>
<H1>The most-requested features that I will never add, and why not:</H1>
-<H2>1. Password encryption in .fetchmailrc</H2>
+<H2>Password encryption in .fetchmailrc</H2>
The reason there's no facility to store passwords encrypted in the
.fetchmailrc file is because this doesn't actually add protection.<P>
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ they're not portable.<P>
I've thought about this a lot and roughed up several designs. All are
complicated and fragile, with a bunch of the standard problems (what
happens if a fetchmail aborts before clearing its semaphore, and how
-do we recover reliably?)<P>.
+do we recover reliably?).<P>
I'm just not satisfied that there's enough functional gain here to pay
for the large increase in complexity that adding these semaphores
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ following minimum steps.
forget the <code>%token</code> declaration.
<LI>Pick a long-form option name, and a one-letter short option if any
- are left. Go to <code>options.c</code>. Pick a new <code>LA_<code>
+ are left. Go to <code>options.c</code>. Pick a new <code>LA_</code>
value. Hack the <code>longoptions</code> table to set up the
association. Hack the big switch statement to set the option.
Hack the `?' message to describe it.
@@ -412,8 +412,8 @@ a gift from the gods, and this is my expression of gratitude.<P>
The beta testers didn't know it at the time, but they were also the
subjects of a sociological experiment. The results are described in
-my paper, <cite>The Cathedral And The Bazaar</cite>, available on the
-<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail">Fetchmail home page</a>.
+my paper, <A HREF="../writings/cathedral-bazaar/">The Cathedral
+And The Bazaar</A>.
<H1>Credits</H1>
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ Hochheiser, who gave me the idea of the SMTP-forwarding delivery mode.<P>
Other significant contributors to the code have included Dave Bodenstab
(error.c code and --syslog), George Sipe (--monitor and --interface),
Gordon Matzigkeit (netrc.c), Al Longyear (UIDL support), Chris
-Hanson (Kerberos V4 support), anc Craig Metz (OPIE, IPv6, IPSEC).<P>
+Hanson (Kerberos V4 support), and Craig Metz (OPIE, IPv6, IPSEC).<P>
<H1>Conclusion</H1>
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ all shaped the design in one way or another.<P>
<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/06/29 21:38:03 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/07/01 23:29:16 $
</table>
<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>
diff --git a/indexgen.sh b/indexgen.sh
index 2a7dda5d..7bfb6823 100755
--- a/indexgen.sh
+++ b/indexgen.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
#
# indexgen.sh -- generate current version of fetchmail home page.
#
+goldvers="4.5.0"
+goldname="4.5.0bis"
version=`sed -n <Makefile.in "/VERS=/s/VERS=\([^ ]*\)/\1/p"`
date=`date "+%d %b %Y"`
@@ -39,8 +41,9 @@ Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented
remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over
on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports
every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3,
-RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN. It can even support
-IPv6 and IPSEC.<P>
+RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of <a
+href="http://www.imap.org">IMAP</a>, and ESMTP ETRN. It can even
+support IPv6 and IPSEC.<P>
Fetchmail retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it via
SMTP, so it can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as <a
@@ -84,12 +87,9 @@ troubleshooting help.<p>
See the <a href="http:design-notes.html">Fetchmail Design Notes</a>
for discussion of some of the design choices in fetchmail.<P>
-Finally, see the distribution <a href="NEWS">NEWS file</a> for a
-description of changes in recent versions.<p>
-
<H1>How to get fetchmail:</H1>
-You can get any of the following here:
+You can get any of the following leading-edge resources here:
<UL>
<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$version.tar.gz">
Gzipped source archive of fetchmail $version</a>
@@ -98,6 +98,17 @@ You can get any of the following here:
<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$version-1.src.rpm">
Source RPM of fetchmail $version</a>
</UL>
+Or you can get the last \`gold' version, $goldname:
+<UL>
+<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$goldvers.tar.gz">
+ Gzipped source archive of fetchmail $goldname</a>
+<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$goldvers-1.i386.rpm">
+ Intel binary RPM of fetchmail $goldname (uses glibc)</a>
+<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$goldvers-1.src.rpm">
+ Source RPM of fetchmail $goldname</a>
+</UL>
+For differences between the leading-edge $version and gold $goldname versions,
+see the distribution <a href="NEWS">NEWS</a> file.<p>
(Note that the RPMs don't have the POP2, OTP, IPv6, Kereberos, or
Compuserve RPA support compiled in. To get that you will have to
@@ -107,7 +118,7 @@ The latest version of fetchmail is also carried in the
<a href="http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/pop/!INDEX.html">
Sunsite remote mail tools directory</a>.
-<H1>Getting help with fetchmail</H1>
+<H1>Getting help with fetchmail:</H1>
There is a fetchmail-friends list for people who want to discuss fixes
and improvements in fetchmail and help co-develop it. It's at <a
@@ -126,10 +137,7 @@ Note: before submitting a question to the list, <strong>please read
the <a href="fetchmail-FAQ.html">FAQ</a></strong> (especially item <a
href="http:fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3">G3</a> on how to report bugs). We
tend to get the same three newbie questions over and over again. The
-FAQ covers them like a blanket. Actually, I'll answer the most common
-one right here: <em>If you've tried everything but can't get multidrop
-mode to work, it is almost certainly because your DNS service (or your
-provider's) is broken.</em><P>
+FAQ covers them like a blanket.<P>
Fetchmail was written and is maintained by <a
href="../index.html">Eric S. Raymond</a>. <a
@@ -164,18 +172,10 @@ The fetchmail development project was a sociological experiment as well
as a technical effort. I ran it as a test of some theories about why the
Linux development model works.<P>
-I wrote a paper, <A HREF="../writings/cathedral.html">The Cathedral
-And The Bazaar</A>, about these theories and the project. It was well
-received at <A HREF="http://www.linux-kongress.de"> Linux Kongress
-'97</A> and the <A HREF="http://www.ale.org/showcase"> Atlanta Linux
-Expo</A> two weeks later. I also presented it at Tim O'Reilly's <A
-HREF="http://www.ora.com/perlconference">Perl Conference</A> August
-19th-21st 1997, at LinuxPro in Warsaw, December 11 1997 and at
-UniForum '98 in May 1998. It's going to be the basis for an invited
-presentation at Usenix '98. A lot of people like it (and the folks at
-Netscape tell me it helped them decide to <a
-href="http://www.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease558.html"> give
-away the source for Netscape Communicator</a>).<P>
+I wrote a paper, <A HREF="../writings/cathedral-bazaar/">The Cathedral
+And The Bazaar</A>, about these theories and the project. The paper
+became quite popular and may have actually helped change the world
+(!). Chase the title link, above, to its page. <P>
<H1>Recent releases and where fetchmail is going:</H2>