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@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ happens when you try that?) (But fetchmail -V reports the timeout option set correctly. Are server timeouts really broken? We must find a way to test this.) + Heads-up! + +The .poprc compatibility hack that allows your first user declaration +per server to omit the "username" keyword. has been causing some +confusion (see question F3 in the FAQ for details). Use of the +feature now generates a warning to standard error. In a future +release, probably 4.0, this hack will be removed and the leading +`username' token required for every user entry. + Release Notes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -47,7 +56,11 @@ features -- * -U option to force UIDL use under POP3 (thanks, Ingmar Baumgart). -There are 249 people on the fetchmail-friends list. +bugs -- + +* George Sipe sent a fix for the --monitor code. + +There are 261 people on the fetchmail-friends list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ fetchmail-3.8 (Fri Mar 7 17:34:02 EST 1997) @@ -123,13 +136,6 @@ There are 229 people on the fetchmail-friends list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ fetchmail-3.5 (Sat Feb 15 15:19:36 EST 1997) -Note: The .poprc compatibility hack that allows your first user declaration -per server to omit the "username" keyword. has been causing some confusion (see -question F3 in the FAQ for details). Use of the feature now generates a -warning to standard error. In a future release, probably 4.0, this hack -will be removed and the leading `username' token required for every user -entry. - features -- * The host that ETRN specifies is now set by the smtphost option. @@ -139,6 +145,8 @@ features -- * Major FAQ reorganization and additions. +* .poprc-style `user'-less entry now triggers a warning. + bugs -- * The counter referred to by the batchlimit option used to count not only |