Treat permanent delivery errors as temporary (configurable).

Fetchmail no longer drops permanently undelivered messages by default,
to match historic documentation.  It does this by adding a new
"softbounce" option, see below.
Fixes Debian Bug#471283, demotes Debian Bug#494418 to wishlist.

There is a new "softbounce" global option that prevents the deletion of
messages that have not been forwarded.  It defaults to "true" for
fetchmail 6.3.X in order to match historic documentation.  This may
change its default in the next major release.

NOTE: untested.

svn path=/branches/BRANCH_6-3/; revision=5315

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3f7be799..9fb8cbd8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -43,11 +43,22 @@ removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.)
   based systems.
 * The maintainer may migrate fetchmail to C++ with STL or C#, and impose further
   requirements (dependencies), such as Boost or other class libraries.
+* The softbounce option default will change to "false" in the next release.
 
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 fetchmail 6.3.10 (not yet released):
 
+# INCOMPATIBLE BUGFIXES AND CHANGES
+* Fetchmail no longer drops permanently undelivered messages by default, to
+  match historic documentation.  It does this by adding a new "softbounce"
+  option, see below.
+  Fixes Debian Bug#471283, demotes Debian Bug#494418 to wishlist.
+* There is a new "softbounce" global option that prevents the deletion of
+  messages that have not been forwarded. It defaults to "true" for fetchmail
+  6.3.X in order to match historic documentation. This may change its default
+  in the next major release.
+
 # BUGFIXES
 * Fix misuse of canonical autoconf target as _TARGET when it should have been
   _HOST. Report and patch courtesy of Diego E. "Flameeyes" Pettenò.