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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1997-07-01 17:50:59 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1997-07-01 17:50:59 +0000
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Removed .poprc compatibility hacks.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=1136
-rw-r--r--NEWS1
-rw-r--r--fetchmail.man19
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3ae72366..7e63b466 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ fetchmail-4.0.0 ()
* Fixes for minor compilation glitches.
* Progress messages now show total count as well as message number.
+* Removed the popclient backward-compatibility hacks.
There are 252 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index fd696d76..9bc45a13 100644
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -1068,28 +1068,11 @@ host queried.
.SH AUTHOR
Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>.
-
-.SH BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY
This program is descended from and replaces
.IR popclient ,
by Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com>; the internals are quite different,
but some of its interface design is directly traceable to that
-ancestral program. Some effort has been made to preserve compatibility.
-.PP
-If called through a link named `popclient', \fIfetchmail\fR will look
-in ~/.poprc for its run control file. As long as the file does not
-use the removed `localfolder' option or `limit' (which now takes a
-maximum byte size rather than a line count), this will often work.
-(The new run control file syntax also has to be a little stricter
-about the order of options than the old, in order to support multiple
-user descriptions per server; thus you may have to rearrange things a
-bit.)
-.PP
-Run control files in the .poprc format will trigger a warning. To
-eliminate this warning, add the `username' keyword before your first user
-entry per server (it is already required before second and subsequent
-user entries per server). In some future version the `username' keyword
-will always be required in server entries declaring multiple users.
+ancestral program.
.SH FILES
.TP 5