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@@ -63,6 +63,32 @@ removed from a 6.5.0 or newer release.) * Fetchmail does not guarantee compatibility with EOL OpenSSL versions. Support for end-of-life OpenSSL versions may be removed even from patchlevel releases. +# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS +* Fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well + (See sourceforge.net bug #780933) +* Fetchmail currently uses 31-bit signed integers in several places + where unsigned and/or wider types should have been used, for instance, + for mailbox sizes, and misreports sizes of 2 GibiB and beyond. + Fixing this requires C89 compatibility to be relinquished. +* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output. +* Fetchmail does not track pending deletes across crashes. +* The command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance, + fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running. +* Linux systems may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if + no or no global IPv6 addresses are configured. + (No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585, Novell Bug#606980.) +* Kerberos 5 may be broken, particularly on Heimdal, and provide bogus error + messages. This will not be fixed, because the maintainer has no Kerberos 5 + server to test against. Use GSSAPI. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +fetchmail-6.4.17 (not yet released): + +# TRANSLATION UPDATES + These fine people have contributed updated translations for fetchmail, + in no particular order: +* ja: Takeshi Hamasaki [Japanese] + -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- fetchmail-6.4.16 (released 2021-02-08, 27707 LoC): @@ -109,26 +135,6 @@ fetchmail-6.4.16 (released 2021-02-08, 27707 LoC): * sv: Göran Uddeborg [Swedish] * fr: Frédéric Marchal [French] -# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS - (This section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the - current release information) -* Fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well - (See sourceforge.net bug #780933) -* Fetchmail currently uses 31-bit signed integers in several places - where unsigned and/or wider types should have been used, for instance, - for mailbox sizes, and misreports sizes of 2 GibiB and beyond. - Fixing this requires C89 compatibility to be relinquished. -* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output. -* Fetchmail does not track pending deletes across crashes. -* The command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance, - fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running. -* Linux systems may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if - no or no global IPv6 addresses are configured. - (No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585, Novell Bug#606980.) -* Kerberos 5 may be broken, particularly on Heimdal, and provide bogus error - messages. This will not be fixed, because the maintainer has no Kerberos 5 - server to test against. Use GSSAPI. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- fetchmail-6.4.15 (released 2021-01-03, 27614 LoC): |