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| author | Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> | 2021-01-30 13:19:38 +0100 |
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| committer | Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> | 2021-01-30 13:19:38 +0100 |
| commit | 1df193714c62e6b12f1b8f1dab10fd23b6d06e51 (patch) | |
| tree | 0270fc94c34d42cee78e2ccc05fa443349d5078d /NEWS | |
| parent | 0486b4d689e2c9a71e367297ffc340469253332b (diff) | |
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fetchmail.man: correct and extend duplicate-suppression behavior
This was found by Julian Bane debugging a situation where duplicate
suppression did not kick in (due to envelope-recording headers,
X-Original-To, Delivered-To). Historic behavior now documented in
fetchmail.man and NEWS in order to reduce confusion.
Gitlab, fixes issue #29.
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@@ -70,6 +70,16 @@ fetchmail-6.4.16 (not yet released): * fetchmail's --configdump, and fetchmailconf, lacked support for the sslcertfile option. --configdump support added by Earl Chew, Gitlab issue #25, merge request !28. +* fetchmail's manual page was never updated to reflect 6.2.5's change about the + duplicate-killer code for multidrop mode, which read + "* Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers." + ...instead of just the Message-ID. [commit 9dd8400, 2003-10-10 by esr] + The manual page was now updated accordingly and documents + historic behaviour: + start to 5.0.7 no duplicate suppression; + 5.0.8 to 6.2.4 duplicate suppression only by Message-ID; + 6.2.5 to 6.4.X duplicate suppression by entire raw header. + Manpage bug found by Julian Bane debugging "duplicate message" behaviour. # KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS (This section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the |