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@@ -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 |