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authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2007-03-29 23:30:20 +0000
committerMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2007-03-29 23:30:20 +0000
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Document bad shape of BSMTP.
svn path=/branches/BRANCH_6-3/; revision=5074
-rw-r--r--NEWS1
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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+++ b/NEWS
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ fetchmail 6.3.8 (not yet released):
current release information)
* fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
(See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
+* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output.
* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in
64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit
fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code,
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index 9423ab8e..da6202a8 100644
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -2703,6 +2703,9 @@ configuration file.
A backslash as the last character of a configuration file will be
flagged as a syntax error rather than ignored.
.PP
+The BSMTP error handling is virtually nonexistent and may leave broken
+messages behind.
+.PP
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