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@@ -9,15 +9,15 @@ Abbreviations in parentheses are the maintainers who committed the respective change. MA = Matthias Andree, ESR = Eric S. Raymond, RF = Rob Funk.) # ADVANCE WARNING OF FEATURES TO BE REMOVED OR CHANGED IN FUTURE VERSIONS -(There are no plans to remove these features from a 6.3.X release, but they may -be removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.) +(There are no plans to remove features from a 6.3.X release, but they may be +removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.) * The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode are based on assumptions that are rarely met in practice, somewhat defective, - deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version. They have - never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4). + deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version. + They have never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4). Non-DNS based alias keywords such as "aka" will remain in fetchmail. * The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail - version as they are not reasonably portable. + version as they are not reasonably portable across operating systems. * POP2 is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail version. * RPOP is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail release. * --sslcertck will become a default setting in a future fetchmail version. @@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ be removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.) cause fetchmail to terminate - it was broken for many years. * Support for operating systems that are not sufficiently POSIX compliant may be removed or operation on such systems may be suboptimal for future releases. + This means that fetchmail may only continue to work on C99 and POSIX 2001 + 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |