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@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ change. MA = Matthias Andree, ESR = Eric S. Raymond, RF = Rob Funk.)
* --sslcertck may become a default setting in a future fetchmail version.
* The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor
is deprecated and may be removed from a future release.
+* The "envelope Received" option may be removed from a future release, because
+ the Received header was never meant to be machine-readable, the format varies
+ widely, and various other differences in behavior make parsing Received an
+ unreliable undertaking. The enveloper option as such will remain though, in
+ order to support Delivered-To, X-Envelope-To, X-Original-To and similar.
+ See also <http://home.pages.de/~mandree/mail/multidrop>.
* The --enable-fallback (fall back to MDA if MTA unavailable) may be removed
from a future fetchmail release.
* The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future
@@ -41,6 +47,7 @@ fetchmail 6.3.5 (not yet released):
* The code still isn't 100% ISO-C compliant, some configurations attempt to
compile files that are empty after preprocessing, which can cause compiler
diagnostics and perhaps jam the compilation on strict compilers.
+* fetchmail expects Received: headers in a particular format.
# CONTRIBUTED SCRIPTS:
* PopDel.py was revised by Joshua Crawford to display the From: address and