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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2000-03-06 19:09:47 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2000-03-06 19:09:47 +0000
commit8fafdda84fb552dbba9829308cd963d5ab78cbdd (patch)
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Try to fix Pavel Rokin's bug.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=2798
-rw-r--r--NEWS9
-rw-r--r--fetchmail.man7
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 203866c3..c6604589 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,9 +2,12 @@
(The `lines' figures total .c, .h, .l, and .y files under version control.)
-* Added support for RFC2177 IDLE command extension of IMAP.
+* Added experimental support for RFC2177 IDLE command extension of IMAP.
* Updated fr.po.
-* Fixed a bug in fetchmailconfs handling of envelope skip prefixes.
+* Fixed a bug in fetchmailconf's handling of envelope skip prefixes.
+* Don't nuke .fetchids when authorization failure keeps us from getting URLs.
+
+There are 291 people on fetchmail-friends and 500 on fetchmail-announce.
fetchmail-5.3.1 (Sun Mar 5 23:02:42 EST 2000), 18648 lines:
@@ -18,7 +21,7 @@ fetchmail-5.3.1 (Sun Mar 5 23:02:42 EST 2000), 18648 lines:
* Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net> sent a fix for IPv6.
* Fix Red Hat 6.2beta bug 9982: fetchmailconf now automatically pups up
an edit panel whenever a new user or site is created.
-* Fix Red Hat 6.2beta bug 9988: Deal gracefully with the possibility that
+* Fix Red Hat 6.2beta bug 9987: Deal gracefully with the possibility that
we might be running as a subprocess with stdin not attached to a tty,
and thus unable to query for a password.
* Resolved all current Debian bugs classed `important'; #43139, #44744, #44760,
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index 3947d1a6..faf4d1d9 100644
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -895,9 +895,10 @@ The protocols \fIfetchmail\fR uses to talk to mailservers are next to
bulletproof. In normal operation forwarding to port 25, no message is
ever deleted (or even marked for deletion) on the host until the SMTP
listener on the client has acknowledged to \fIfetchmail\fR that the
-message has been accepted for delivery. When forwarding to an MDA,
-however, there is more possibility of error (because there's no way
-for fetchmail to get a reliable positive acknowledgement from the MDA).
+message has been accepted for delivery or rejected due to a apam
+block. When forwarding to an MDA, however, there is more possibility
+of error (because there's no way for fetchmail to get a reliable
+positive acknowledgement from the MDA).
.PP
The normal mode of \fIfetchmail\fR is to try to download only `new'
messages, leaving untouched (and undeleted) messages you have already