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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.
+* The softbounce option default will change to "false" in the next release.
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fetchmail 6.3.10 (not yet released):
+# INCOMPATIBLE BUGFIXES AND CHANGES
+* Fetchmail no longer drops permanently undelivered messages by default, to
+ match historic documentation. It does this by adding a new "softbounce"
+ option, see below.
+ Fixes Debian Bug#471283, demotes Debian Bug#494418 to wishlist.
+* There is a new "softbounce" global option that prevents the deletion of
+ messages that have not been forwarded. It defaults to "true" for fetchmail
+ 6.3.X in order to match historic documentation. This may change its default
+ in the next major release.
+
# BUGFIXES
* Fix misuse of canonical autoconf target as _TARGET when it should have been
_HOST. Report and patch courtesy of Diego E. "Flameeyes" Pettenò.